Staff/Principal AMS Verification Engineer
Explicitly requires AI-assisted (vibe) coding techniques to improve efficiency or automate design and analysis.
About the Role
Staff/Principal AMS Verification Engineer focused on verifying analog and mixed-signal circuits and building full-chip mixed-signal simulation environments that integrate analog, digital and firmware. The role aims to create schematic/behavioral models, perform device-level electrical checks and simulations, and correlate subsystems to ensure reliability and manufacturability.
Job Description
Role
Staff/Principal AMS Verification Engineer responsible for verification of analog and mixed-signal circuits and development of full-chip mixed-signal simulation environments integrating analog, digital, and firmware to validate functionality, reliability, and manufacturability.
Key Responsibilities
- Verify analog and mixed-signal circuits.
- Generate full-chip mixed-signal simulation environments where analog, digital and firmware co-exist.
- Create schematic and behavioral models of blocks to enable efficient full-chip simulation.
- Perform device-level electrical rule checks (SOA, snapback, sfb) and SPF extraction, fanout and coupling checks.
- Run static and dynamic simulations to identify leakage paths.
- Execute power cycling simulations (power loss and brown-out events).
- Conduct chip-level user-mode simulations correlating analog subsystems, logic and firmware algorithms.
- Review design data sheets and generate verification plans.
- Collaborate with Product Engineering, Test, Probe, Process Integration, Assembly and Marketing to optimize designs for manufacturing, quality, reliability and time-to-market.
Requirements
- Understanding of MOS device physics, including second-order effects.
- Basic knowledge of analog circuits: current mirrors, bandgap references, op-amps, regulators, ADCs/DACs and charge pumps.
- Familiarity with shell, Perl and Python scripting.
- Experience with Cadence Virtuoso, HSPICE, XA and co-simulation environments.
- Familiarity with HDLs: Verilog, SystemVerilog and Verilog-A/AMS.
- Experience with SPF extraction, fanout and coupling analysis.
- Strong debugging skills and a system-level outlook.
- Ability to understand complex workflows and a constant drive to innovate.
- Proven ability to leverage AI-assisted (vibe) coding techniques to improve efficiency or automate design and analysis methodologies.