Director – Circuit Design Engineering

Job Summary

The Director, Circuit Design Engineering will be responsible for building and leading the Netherlands team through the development of various semiconductor products, including low noise precision timing circuits, leveraging SiTime’s industry-leading MEMS technology, that span high-performance Networking and Communications Infrastructure market application requirements and ultra-low power mobile platforms including wearable devices.   

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, self-starting, leader adept at driving fast-moving design engineering teams and possessing excellent technical, managerial, and communications skills.  The position will have significant exposure with opportunity for career growth.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit, build, and motivate world-class engineering teams
• Encourage, practice, and enhance SiTime culture for creating pleasant and highly efficient work environment 
• Lead a cross-functional IC Design team consisting of Analog, Mixed-Signal, Digital, and Layout engineers, to develop precision timing solutions that address high-performance and ultra-low power applications
• Provide wide and sharp technical expertise, and quickly understand new and unfamiliar technical subjects and form opinions/strategies to resolve challenges and/or recommend and implement on new opportunities
• Identify products and processes shortcomings and constraints. 
• Propose and implement optimal procedures that resolve problems suited for the stage of the company and its resources
• Make products level decisions, including testability, manufacturing, cost, applications, and product support features/consideration 
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Test Engineering, and Applications teams to design chips with DFT, DFM, achieve rapid silicon bring-up and fast time-to-production release
• Partner with Customers, Marketing, and Sales to define products, roadmaps, and schedules to target and win key designs

• Manage engineers to accomplish customer, schedule, and budget goals
• Drive other projects as needed by management or as business needs change 

 Qualifications & Requirements:

• MS Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent field, PhD preferred
• Minimum 10 years industry experience in custom Analog IC circuit design, developing:
• Frequency synthesis architecture/circuits, Voltage References, bias circuits, Switched capacitor or sampling circuits, high performance ADC and DACs, Linear regulators 
• Minimum 5 years proven experience in a similar leadership role
• Proven track record of designing and producing (in high volume) profitable complex mixed-signal chips
• Track record of planning and execution from Product Concept through Design Implementation, Tape-out, Sampling and production release. Ability to execute methodically to deliver projects and products.
• Proven track record at each stage of the following:
• Architecture development and feasibility studies
• Writing specifications at both system and block level
• Design partitioning for noise / power / area budgeting
• Detailed design and simulation of basic analog building blocks and one or more of the following: ADCs, DACs, Temperature Sensors, PLL, high-speed op amps, band gaps
• Knowledge of ultra-low phase-noise design, power supply noise considerations, device matching, parasitic extraction, signal integrity, ESD
• Supervision of layout and editing critical blocks
• Chip level design and verification of complex mixed-signal chips
• Chip validation, characterization, qualification, release to production
• Ability to cross-correlate technical, marketing, productization, and operational aspects of a product and find optimal path to satisfy various aspects of a product

• Prior experience recruiting, building, and leading successful teams with proven record of building high performing teams
• Willing and able to travel both domestically and internationally 

Desired Characteristics & Attributes:

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
• Proven record of leading teams to new places with combination of clarity of mind, aggressive goals, team’s trust, articulate communication 
• Ability to think strategically but execute tactically and understand the difference
• Ability to work well with others in a fast-paced collaborative team environment

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