Principal Analog Engineer - San Jose, United States
$208,500 - $260,700 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 July 2026 by the employer — open 80 days. Relisted by the employer on 31 July 2026.
About the role
This role involves exploring, defining, and evaluating PMIC IC architectures.
What you'll do
- Explore, define, and evaluate PMIC IC architectures.
- Drive industry standardization on PMIC design.
- Support cross-functional teams to enable power management products.
- Drive design documentation.
- Support silicon evaluation, circuit debugging, and production test development.
- Provide customer and applications support.
- Specify technology requirements for future products.
What you'll need
- Experience in power management circuits, various switch-mode power supply architectures, switching regulators, and LDO.
- Experience on fast response DCDC converters and switched capacitor converters.
- Experience in high-precision analog integrated circuit design (amplifiers, comparators, regulators, oscillators, references).
- Understanding of CMOS and BCD process technologies and circuit design.
- Proficiency in circuit and system simulation tools (Cadence, Matlab).
- Experience with mixed-signal simulation in the Cadence AMS environment.
- Experience and capability with lab evaluation.
- Industry standardization and application field experience.
- BSEE with 15+ years of relevant experience, or MSEE or PH.D. in Electrical Engineering or Power Electronics with 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
Skills: power management ic, switch-mode power supply, switching regulators, LDO, DCDC converters
This role has been open 80 days — slightly above the 72-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Management
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Open roles in category
71
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Median days open
72 d
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Median salary
$169k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Renesas Electronics | All employers we track in this specialty (71 roles · 25 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 15 | 71 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 85 | 1337 · 105 employers |
| Median days open | 76 d | 72 d (+4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: power management ic, switch-mode power supply, switching regulators, LDO, DCDC converters
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics (this employer) · 15 open roles · median 76 d
- Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 39 d
- Analog Devices · 6 open roles · median 82 d
- Monolithic Power Systems · 6 open roles · median 185 d
- AMD · 5 open roles · median 90 d
- Infineon Technologies · 5 open roles · median 73 d
How we counted: 71 open Power Electronics (Power Management) roles from 25 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family row. Figures refresh nightly.