Senior Analog IC Designer and Chip Lead

Senior Analog IC Designer and Chip Lead

Imec

Leuven, Belgium

Find the perfect balance between research and industry and lead the frontier of custom IC design with imec!

Your future role

As an analogue IC designer at imec, you have the chance to make significant contributions to a wide range of projects spanning multiple technology readiness levels (TRLs), from initial proof-of-concept stages through to full product development. This diversity will enable you to broaden your expertise and to have a tangible impact at every phase of innovation.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Design high-end analog building blocks with challenging specifications (e.g. switched-cap amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, clock generation circuits, high speed serializers...);
• Contribute to architecture definition, understand or define the specifications at system level and propagate the specifications to the building blocks;
• Contribute to technical discussions with partners and customers;
• Master the procedures and tools to develop large circuits and complex on-chip systems;
• Cooperate in a real team spirit with your colleagues, guide and follow-up junior designers and layout engineers;
• Cross-collaborate with device and technology experts from other teams;
• Evaluate the sensor and its building blocks in our lab: define the measurements, specify the measurement hardware and contribute to the development the measurement software;
• Participate to the writing of technical publications or patents.

Who you are

You have a Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Electronics, or a related field.

You are a senior analog IC designer with minimum 8 years of experience in analog and/or mixed-signal IC design, and have a strong background in leading complex, highperformance analog and mixedsignal integrated circuits. You bring deep expertise in highspeed analog design, in particular multiGbps serializers and PLLs, and you are comfortable working from systemlevel architecture down to circuit and blocklevel implementation.

You have hands-on experience across the full IC development lifecycle, including specification definition, design, verification, silicon bringup, and lab evaluation. As a technical or chip lead, you enjoy taking ownership, coordinating across disciplines, and guiding junior designers and layout engineers toward highquality results.

You thrive in a researchdriven, collaborative environment, enjoy tackling problems that do not yet have a known solution, and are motivated to translate innovative ideas into working silicon. You communicate clearly with colleagues, partners, and customers (corporate language is English), and are eager to contribute to technical publications or patents that help shape the future of semiconductor technology.