Mixed-Signal (AMS) IC Designer

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States         ·       Full time

Description

Our mission at Precision Neuroscience is to develop and commercialize brain-computer interfaces (BCI). We are pursuing minimally invasive approaches to BCI to address major unmet clinical needs. We are well-capitalized and have an IP portfolio that has been built over nearly 10 years.

Brain-computer interfaces represent a new frontier in medicine and computing. We seek to establish Precision Neuroscience as one of the leading companies in this space globally. Our core objective is to deliver life-changing technology to millions of patients worldwide, and in doing so to transform the ways we interact with machines, one another, and our world.

We are seeking an Analog, Mixed-Signal (AMS) IC Designer to join our hardware engineering team in developing electronics for our implantable brain-computer interface (BCI).

In this role you will contribute to a well-defined application that has interesting constraints, while you work with a team that is at the top of its field.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to join our core team to help shape the future of our company. Your work will see commercialization quickly so that we improve the lives of patients who live with neurological disorders in a matter of months and years, not decades.

This position is on-site in Bloomington Minneapolis. We are unable to consider candidates who are not currently in the US.

For more detail on our work, see our preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.02.474656v1

You will:

• Design and develop analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for our implant such as Power Management Units (PMU), Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC), Neural Amplifiers, and Neural Stimulators.
• Perform schematic capture, layout, pre- and post- layout simulations, Montecarlo and corner analysis, and top-level integration.
• Complete hands-on testing tasks with lab instrumentation such as signal generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers and vector network analyzers.
• Perform chip tapeouts, testing and characterization.
• Collaborate with industry leading manufacturing partners on fabrication of some components of our device.
• Create and update end-user technical documentation, product specifications and vendor procedures.
• Participate in detailed, collaborative discussions about the impact of your designs on the overall BCI design. Such discussions are driven by the excellent, substantial feedback loop generated by our rigorous experiment schedule.
• Collaborate with the rest of our team to publish and present our work.

Requirements

• PhD in Electrical Engineering (EE), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), or related field, or equivalent years of experience.
• Expertise using industry standard EDA tools such as Cadence, Mentor (Cadence is preferred).
• Experience designing analog, mixed-signal circuits in 180 nm or smaller processes.
• Tape-out experience including successful testing and characterization.
• Comfortable with using a range of lab instruments such as signal generators, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, etc.
• Experience with low-power analog design, amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, PLLs, power management circuits (preferred).
• Experience working with medical devices (preferred).

Diverse workforces create the best culture, company, and products. We at Precision Neuroscience are committed to an inclusive culture that celebrates the uniqueness and contributions of everyone. As an equal opportunity employer, Precision Neuroscience does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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