Electrical Engineer, ASIC Program Lead-CA

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. Advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering, mixed-signal systems, ASIC/SoC development, or high-reliability electronic product development.
• Demonstrated ownership of at least one custom ASIC program from concept and specification generation through verification, silicon bring-up, qualification, and production release.
• Strong analog or mixed-signal background, especially with low-noise analog front ends, sensor interfaces, neural signal acquisition, biopotential measurement, precision instrumentation, ADC interfaces, and microvolt-level signals.
• Strong digital background, including data path architecture, multiplexing, serialization, timing closure concepts, clock domain crossing, low-power digital design, data integrity, and robust high-channel-count data handling.
• Experience reviewing or driving ASIC verification plans, including analog, digital, mixed-signal, and system-level verification.
• Experience working with external ASIC vendors, design partners, foundries, packaging teams, or semiconductor test/manufacturing partners.
• Strong understanding of ASIC development flow, including architecture, specification, RTL/design review, verification, synthesis/timing concepts, DFT, physical implementation review, tapeout, silicon bring-up, characterization, and production test.
• Ability to work across analog, digital, firmware, packaging, PCB, and system boundaries to preserve signal fidelity throughout the acquisition and processing chain.
• Strong lab and debugging skills using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, precision measurement equipment, and custom test fixtures.
• Experience developing and executing verification plans, test reports, requirements traceability, failure analysis, and corrective actions.
• Familiarity with IEC 60601, ISO 13485, design controls, design history files, risk management, and regulated product development.
• Strong documentation skills and ability to translate complex system needs into clear technical requirements and design specifications.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead technical discussions across internal teams, external vendors, and senior leadership.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with implantable, wearable, or high-reliability medical devices.
• Experience with neural recording, bioinstrumentation, electrophysiology, or other low-amplitude physiological signal acquisition systems.
• Experience with ultra-low-power ASICs, low-leakage circuits, sub-microwatt/channel front ends, power domains, and power/performance optimization.
• Experience with mixed-signal designs where isolation, crosstalk, substrate noise, ground bounce, coupling, and packaging parasitics are critical.
• Familiarity with Verilog/VHDL/SystemVerilog, UVM concepts, EDA tools, and ASIC verification methodologies.
• Experience with Python, MATLAB, C/C++, Tcl, or other scripting/programming tools for test automation, modeling, data analysis, or lab characterization.
• Experience supporting production test, yield improvement, reliability testing, accelerated life testing, supplier qualification, or contract manufacturing.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers or leading cross-functional technical teams without requiring formal people-management authority.
• Work Environment
• Reporting and Collaboration
• This position reports to the Director of Electrical and Firmware Engineering and will collaborate closely with the VP of R&D, ASIC vendors, firmware developers, signal processing scientists, systems engineers, clinical engineering teams, quality/regulatory teams, manufacturing partners, physicians, and external semiconductor design partners.
• Compensation
• The base salary range for this role is $160,000 – $200,000 depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.
• Visa Sponsorship
• We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position at this time.
• Benefits (for W-2, full-time, exempt employees in the US only)
• Subsidized medical and dental insurance coverage for you and your dependent(s)
• Life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability
• 401k
• Discretionary unlimited PTO
• Flexible Spending Account for you and your dependent(s), with eligible plan elections
• Commuter benefits for NY employees
• EEO
• Synchron is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants and provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.