Staff RFIC Design Engineer - San Jose, United States
Originally posted 6 July 2026 by the employer — open 66 days. Relisted by the employer on 12 August 2026.
About the role
This role involves the design of high performance analog and mixed-signal circuit blocks.
What you'll do
- Architect, design, simulate, and optimize transistor level, block level, and module level circuits.
- Supervise and verify layouts.
- Prepare test plans for the test group.
- Characterize products and assess reliability and yield.
- Conduct simulation to bench and bench to test correlation.
- Perform bench evaluation at both silicon and applications levels.
What you'll need
- Hands-on design and development experience in analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits.
- Experience in full CMOS circuit design and development in Amplifiers (operational, instrumentation, wide-bandwidth), PMIC (Linear and switched regulators, Low-drop out regulators), or Data converters (ADC, DAC, Flash and SAR type).
- Experience in 40nm and below CMOS technology.
- Thorough knowledge of industry standard EDA tools (Cadence, Mentor, Siemens, Ansys).
- Experience with analog layout techniques of mismatch reduction, gradient suppression, and parasitic effects minimization.
- Knowledge of high performance and deep CMOS analog reliability considerations such as EM-IR, SOA, and VDR.
Nice to have
- Experience with floor planning, block level routing and top level chip routing.
- Functional knowledge of logic digital circuits and understanding of basic digital design flow.
- Experience working with distributed design teams.
Skills: analog IC design, mixed-signal circuit blocks, transistor level design, layout supervision, CMOS technology
This role has been open 66 days — exactly the 66-day median for Analog IC Design roles.
Analog IC Design · Analog Design
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Open roles in category
259
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Median days open
66 d
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Median salary
$156k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Western Digital | All employers we track in this specialty (259 roles · 46 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 259 |
| Open roles in the wider Analog & Mixed-Signal family | 2 | 1317 · 100 employers |
| Median days open | 66 d | 66 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $156k |
Skills observed across this category: analog IC design, mixed-signal circuit blocks, transistor level design, layout supervision, CMOS technology
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 33 open roles · median 45 d
- Texas Instruments · 30 open roles · median 111 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 15 open roles · median 65 d
- Renesas Electronics · 14 open roles · median 53 d
- onsemi · 13 open roles · median 111 d
- Semtech · 11 open roles · median 83 d
How we counted: 259 open Analog IC Design (Analog Design) roles from 46 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.