Principal Analog Sustaining Engineer - San Jose, United States
Originally posted 23 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Investigate and resolve field failures and customer-reported issues on automotive PMIC products. Lead root cause analysis from initial RMA intake through hardware debug, silicon analysis, and final resolution.
What you'll do
- Review RMA documentation, set up simulation and hardware debug environments, and reproduce customer-reported failure symptoms. - Collect and analyze waveforms, run analog simulations, and review RTL/netlist to identify failure mechanisms and silicon behavior anomalies. - Coordinate with FA labs, interpret physical failure analysis results, and direct next actions to converge on root cause. - Propose silicon fixes or system-level workarounds, establish validation strategies, and evaluate feasibility with customer applications teams. - Author technical documentation including 8D reports, presentations, and comprehensive root cause analysis reports for customers and internal teams. - Partner with design, applications, test, and quality engineering teams to transfer knowledge and drive sustaining quality improvements.
What you'll need
- Typically 12-15+ years of experience in IC design, with a strong focus on debug, failure analysis, or sustaining engineering. - Demonstrated experience diagnosing complex silicon or system-level failures across mixed-signal PMIC environments. - Experience with FA lab processes, failure analysis techniques (e.g., SEM, FIB, emission microscopy), and interpretation of physical failure analysis results. - Hands-on experience with industry-standard EDA and debug tools (e.g., Synopsys, Cadence, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, simulation environments). - Knowledge of Verilog, Verilog-AMS, or scripting languages used to support debug automation or simulation. - Familiarity with the 8D problem-solving methodology, structured debug reports, and customer quality processes. - BSEE or MSEE in Electrical Engineering.
Skills: field failures, customer-reported issues, automotive PMIC, root cause analysis, FA lab processes, physical failure analysis