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Principal Voltage Regulator Design Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, CA, United States

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Invent the future with us.   
 
Recognized by Fast Company’s 2023 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators List, Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient, sustainable cloud computing. 
 
By providing a new level of predictable performance, efficiency, and sustainability Ampere is working with leading cloud suppliers and a growing partner ecosystem to deliver cloud instances, servers and embedded/edge products that can handle the compute demands of today and tomorrow. 
 
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team — we’d love to have you apply. Come invent the future with us.  

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Voltage Regulator (VR) design lead to join our growing Processor Design group, advancing the art of high performance System-On-Chip (SOC) design.

In this role as an experienced VR design engineer, you will be leading the overall architecture, design and implementation of various DC-DC buck/boost converters. This would involve collaborating with various other teams including power management, system architecture, platform, packaging and die teams. This is a highly visible role with overall project level responsibility from specifications and implementation through productization and customer interactions. 

What you’ll achieve:

  • Work with various design teams to develop VR specifications and drive overall power-management strategy 
  • Assess various DC-DC converter configurations to develop the best-suited, application-specific design
  • Lead a team to design, develop and implement the VR designs
  • Work with layout designers to ensure layout meets design specification and follows best known layout practices
  • Generate and deliver all design collaterals for integration 
  • Develop post-silicon validation plans to ensure silicon meets specifications
  • Provide leadership and technical guidance to other engineers

About you:

  • In-depth experience working on buck/boost DC-DC converters and Linear Drop-Out (LDO) regulators 
  • Extensive expertise in Analog and Mixed-Signal circuit design with in-depth understanding of key concepts like noise, mismatch etc.
  • Familiarity with designing in latest FinFet technology nodes is a plus
  • Experience with Cadence design suite for schematic entry, layout and Spice simulations
  • Electrical or Computer Engineering - Bachelor's degree & 8 years of related experience; or Master's degree & 6 years; or PhD & 3 years
What we’ll offer: 
 
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The full base pay range for this role is between $135,400 and $225,600, except in the San Francisco Bay Area where the range is between $146,300 and $243,800. 
 
Our benefits include health, wellness, and financial programs that support employees through every stage of life, with full benefits eligibility at 20 hours per week. Benefits highlights include: 
  • Premium medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, as well as income protection and a 401(k) retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health and financial future
  • Unlimited Flextime and 10+ paid holidays so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance  
  • A variety of healthy snacks, energizing espresso, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day 
There is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more.  We are passionate about inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process. 
 
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Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.
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