Senior/Principal Analog Layout Engineer

The Senior Analog Layout Engineer will be responsible for creating highperformance IC layouts for complex analog, mixedsignal, and custom circuits at both block and chip levels. This role requires a strong understanding of deepsubmicron CMOS processes, advanced layout techniques, and industrystandard EDA tools. The ideal candidate will work closely with circuit designers to translate schematic requirements into robust, siliconproven physical layouts.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform fullcustom layout of analog and mixedsignal building blocks, including amplifiers, ADC/DAC components, regulators, PLLs, bias circuits, sensors, and highprecision analog modules.
• Execute toplevel floorplanning and routing strategies with careful consideration of performance, area optimization, power distribution, and signal integrity.
• Apply advanced matching techniques for transistors, resistors, and capacitors, ensuring low noise, high linearity, and optimal device performance in deepsubmicron technologies.
• Verify and debug physical layouts by resolving LVS, DRC, ERC, Antenna, and EM/IR reliability issues.
• Collaborate closely with circuit designers to understand layoutdependent effects (LDE), performance tradeoffs, and design constraints.
• Ensure compliance with foundry technology rules and design guidelines while optimizing for manufacturability and yield (DFM).
• Generate and maintain documentation related to layout methodologies, constraints, and verification results.

Position Requirements:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering (M.S./Ph.D. preferred)
• Handson experience with industrystandard CAD/EDA tools including Cadence Virtuoso, VXL, Assura, PVS, Calibre, and related verification tools.
• Strong understanding of parasitic extraction (PEX) and its impact on analog circuit performance.
• Proven ability to plan and execute blocklevel and chiplevel layouts in advanced CMOS nodes.
• Solid knowledge of device matching, symmetry, commoncentroid layout, guard rings, shielding, dummy structures, and routing best practices.
• Ability to independently resolve verification errors and deliver clean, tapeoutready layouts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a crossfunctional engineering team.
• Detailoriented, highly organized, and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

Forza Silicon is a Business Unit in the Materials Analysis Division of AMETEK, Inc. Founded in 2001, Forza Silicon has established itself as an innovator and industry leader in the field of mixed-signal IC and CMOS imaging designs that have set the standard of the possible. Forza Silicon designs custom and offtheshelf CMOS image sensors for highspeed, lownoise, and specialty applications across aerospace, defense, medical, industrial, scientific and media markets. Leveraging decades of experience, we deliver advanced imaging solutions enabling customers to push beyond conventional sensor performance. Forza has grown to where today the company employs one of the industry's largest and most experienced independent CMOS imaging engineering teams. To learn more about Forza Silicon, please go to www.forzasilicon.com.