Principal Power IC Design Engineer - AZ, Chandler, East Elliot, United States
Originally posted 11 June 2026 by the employer — open 103 days.
About the role
As a Principal Power IC Design Engineer, you will serve as a technical authority in the design and development of high-performance power management integrated circuits. Your work will directly shape semiconductor process development alongside the teams building ADI's power technologies.
What you'll do
- Define and lead system-level architecture of power management ICs, including DC-DC converters (buck, boost, buck-boost), LDOs, charge pumps, gate drivers, power stages, and protection circuits.
- Architect and design high-performance power circuit blocks at the transistor level, optimizing for efficiency, transient response, and thermal performance.
- Lead architecture and design reviews, assessing trade-offs across efficiency, area, EMI, reliability, and cost.
- Drive parasitic-aware simulation, power-stage optimization, and design centering across process corners and operating conditions.
- Oversee physical implementation of power blocks, ensuring layout meets electrical, thermal, and manufacturability targets.
What you'll need
- MSEE with 10+ years of power IC design experience, or PhD with 8+ years.
- Expertise in transistor-level design of high-performance power management circuits.
- Track record of leading power IC designs from concept through tape-out, silicon validation, and production release.
- Understanding of BCD, HV-CMOS, and power FET process technologies, including high-voltage device physics and safe operating area constraints.
- Proficiency with Cadence IC design suite: Virtuoso, Spectre/APS, and power-stage simulation environments.
- Experience with control loop design, compensation techniques, and stability analysis for switching and linear regulators.
Nice to have
- Experience leveraging AI/ML techniques to enhance design automation, optimization, or modeling workflows.
- Experience with magnetics modeling, inductor/transformer co-design, and system-level power delivery network analysis.
- Knowledge of thermal analysis, package-level power dissipation modeling, and EMI/EMC mitigation techniques.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
Skills: power IC design, DC-DC converters, LDOs, gate drivers, power stage
This role has been open 102 days — well above the 59-day median for Power Electronics roles.
Power Electronics · Power Conversion
|
Open roles in category
51
|
Median days open
59 d
|
Median salary
$184k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Analog Devices | All employers we track in this specialty (51 roles · 24 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 51 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 94 | 1344 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 60 d | 59 d (+1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $184k |
Skills observed across this category: power IC design, DC-DC converters, LDOs, gate drivers, power stage
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 6 open roles · median 33 d
- Renesas Electronics · 5 open roles · median 41 d
- Power Integrations · 4 open roles · median 51 d
- Analog Devices (this employer) · 3 open roles · median 60 d
- Navitas Semiconductor · 3 open roles · median 26 d
- onsemi · 3 open roles · median 126 d
How we counted: 51 open Power Electronics (Power Conversion) roles from 24 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 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.