SPICE Modeling Engineer (SB-64000981) - Austin, Texas, United States
$170,000 - $250,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 March 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves taking ownership of device lab operations, performing silicon device characterization, and extracting accurate SPICE and aging models. You will work across hands-on lab characterization, compact modeling, and silicon physics to evaluate device performance and long-term reliability.
What you'll do
- Take ownership of device lab operations, ensuring equipment is optimized and operating effectively. - Perform a broad range of silicon device characterization across deep-submicron CMOS and BCD device structures. - Extract, generate, validate, and manage QA flows for accurate SPICE and aging models. - Design test structures, including individual devices and arrays, for silicon characterization. - Document test results, characterization methodologies, and model behavior.
What you'll need
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline, or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience in semiconductor device modeling and characterization. - Strong foundational knowledge of semiconductor device physics as it relates to compact modeling across various device types. - Hands-on experience performing deep-submicron CMOS and BCD device measurements using parametric analyzers, LCR meters, and precision instrumentation. - Experience operating manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic probers for device-level test and characterization. - Familiarity with active and passive device structures, device noise, mismatch behavior, and long-term reliability mechanisms. - Demonstrated expertise in SPICE model generation, validation, and QA flows.
Nice to have
- Ability to stress-test devices to evaluate post-stress behavior and safe-operating-area (SOA) limits. - Prior exposure to digital and analog design flows and broader design methodologies. - Experience running simulations in Cadence ADE. - Knowledge of test-structure layout across multiple technology nodes, including advanced CMOS and BCD/HV for analog and mixed-signal products. - Strong coding ability in Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages to support analysis and automation.
Skills: SPICE modeling, device characterization, test-chip design, semiconductor device physics, compact modeling, parametrics
This role has been open 220 days — well above the 61-day median for Device Engineering roles.
Device Engineering · Device Physics
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Open roles in category
147
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Median days open
61 d
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Median salary
$165k
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| Metric | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (147 roles · 36 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 147 |
| Median days open | 220 d | 61 d (+159 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $165k |
Skills observed across this category: SPICE modeling, device characterization, test-chip design, semiconductor device physics, compact modeling, parametrics
Who's hiring in this category
- GlobalFoundries · 24 open roles · median 72 d
- Micron Technology · 19 open roles · median 111 d
- Infineon Technologies · 11 open roles · median 38 d
- Intel Corporation · 10 open roles · median 29 d
- Renesas Electronics · 9 open roles · median 40 d
- STMicroelectronics · 9 open roles · median 61 d
How we counted: 147 open Device Engineering (Device Physics) roles from 36 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 26 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.