Lead Design Engineer

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Lead Design Engineer - Roles & Responsibilities

• Contribute to analog and AMS design activities for high-speed memory interface PHYs, with strong hands-on execution capability
• Evaluate architecture models and feasibility studies to assess performance, power, area, and scalability trade-offs
• Support early architecture exploration by providing circuit-level insight and validating architectural assumptions
• Actively support silicon bring-up, lab debug, and characterization, including root-cause analysis of analog, AMS, and PHY-level issues
• Show willingness to jump into any technical domain that requires immediate attention to unblock teams or customers
• Contribute to technical documentation by identifying gaps, proposing improvements, and supporting the creation of design documents and architecture support material
• Act as a dependable technical contributor during critical phases such as silicon validation, and customer escalations
• Apply AI-based approaches to automate repetitive tasks, and enhance engineering productivity

• M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field (required or strongly preferred)
• Minimum 7 years of industry experience in analog / AMS design, memory PHYs, or high-speed IO
• Strong hands-on experience with analog and AMS circuits
• Solid background in DDR / LPDDR memory interfaces