Senior Staff Engineer, IC Design

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor’s 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission—to enhance Murata’s world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi’s product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi’s team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Job Summary

This individual will be a senior lead for the core Power Management design team, lead our chip projects, and be instrumental in converting pSemi technology into disruptive products for our target markets. The role will drive product during the entire product life cycle from product definition through product release to end-of-life.  As a key leader cross-functional product development teams the senior staff engineer will support and guide other essential disciplines including marketing and applications, project management, characterization, production and test engineering. The senior staff engineer is expected to successfully complete product development with little to no oversight and be proactive in identifying and resolving potential product issues. This position is expected to have a broad expertise and contribute to the development of the company’s overall objectives.

 

Roles & Responsibilities

This position has responsibility for:

• Product Definition: Assist Marketing in defining new products through feasibility studies and technical competitive analyses
• Product Design and Evaluation: Schematic Capture, IC layout, Simulation, Package Analysis, Evaluation Board Design, Design Validation, and mentoring junior engineers
• Product Documentation: Document all relevant product and design information to educate others on novel design techniques and provide guidance on product usage
• Product Characterization: Work with Characterization and Test Engineers to define, conduct and analyze data from product performance characterization
• Production ATE Development: Work with Test Engineers to define, develop and ramp production ATE solutions
• Product Support: Work with Applications, Product, Test and Manufacturing Engineers to help answer customer questions, assess field failures, support yield improvements, etc.
• Technology Development: work with Technologists to define the technology roadmap, addressing the performance and functional requirements of the product roadmap
• Team leadership: provide technical mentoring to junior design team members; help design manager with resource planning and cross functional team efforts

 

Competency Requirements

In order to perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Critical Thinking: Skilled at finding logical flaws in arguments and plans; identifies problems and solutions that others might miss; provides detailed insight and constructive criticism into problems and complex situations
• Working with Ambiguity: Achieves forward progress in the face of poorly defined situations and/or unclear goals; able to work effectively with limited or partial information. 
• Displaying Technical Expertise: Keeps his/her technical skills current; effectively