Qualcomm
Staff Engineer - Power Management IC Design
$160K–$239K
Santa Clara, California · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years with a bachelor's degree; 4+ years with a master's degree; or 2+ years with a PhD in analog, mixed-signal, or Power Management integrated circuit design. Also requires 2+ years of academic and/or work experience using specified design tools.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering; or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field; or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field.
About the job
Leads the architecture, design, verification, layout oversight, and silicon bring-up of mixed-signal power management ICs for compute, data center, automotive, and industrial applications.
What you'll do
- Owns design and verification strategy for assigned PMIC blocks and subsystems, including controller circuitry and high-current power stage interfaces.
- Guides layout and performs circuit functionality, performance, physical, and reliability verification; analyzes simulation and silicon results and drives corrective actions.
- Supports silicon bring-up, characterization, qualification, and production ramp with validation, test, and product engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 6+ years of relevant IC design experience; or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4+ years; or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field and 2+ years.
- 2+ years of academic and/or work experience using CADENCE, SPICE, MATLAB, and/or Verilog/VHDL.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering.
- Experience in one or more of: Power Electronics, Control Theory, Multiphase Buck Controllers, High-Accuracy Analog Front Ends, High-Speed or High-Drive Circuits, Very Low Power or Precision References, Electro-Migration and Transistor Reliability, Behavioral Modeling, or Mixed-Signal Verification Techniques.
Pay
$159,600.00 - $239,400.00 USD (pay range; salary/base pay)
Tools
Cadence ADE, Spectre, MathWorks MATLAB, MATLAB, Verilog/Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog, Simplis, SPICE
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