Senior Analog IC Design Engineer
Arago
- Paris, France
- On-site
- Senior Level
- Posted
Responsibilities
- Design high-performance analog and mixed-signal ICs optimized for precision, power, and area, driving Arago’s prototype and product iterations from architecture to silicon validation.
- Design and simulate analog and RF integrated circuits, including critical blocks such as amplifiers, mixers, PLLs, ADCs, DACs, and bias/reference circuits, with a focus on signal integrity, linearity, and precision.
- Optimize circuits for power, area, and performance trade-offs, ensuring designs meet system-level requirements across process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations.
- Collaborate closely with optics, simulation and PCB teams to define architecture and block-level specifications for Arago’s successive prototypes and product iterations, ensuring tight alignment with overall performance and integration goals.
- Work with layout engineers to guide floor-planning and physical design, minimizing parasitic effects and preserving analog precision in layout-sensitive blocks.
- Support post-silicon validation and bring-up, defining test plans, analyzing lab measurements, and correlating results with simulation to refine future design iterations.
Requirements
- A sound mathematical understanding and deep physical intuition of analog electronics, as well as analog voltage-to-current and current-to-voltage conversion at low and high frequencies.
- Experience in designing high-precision analog systems for signal processing or power electronics. Experience working with high-frequency analog signals is valued.
- Proficiency in designing and optimizing mixed-signal circuits, including DACs and ADCs at low (kHz-MHz) and high (>GHz) frequencies, and signal conditioning circuits, ensuring flawless integration between analog RF components and digital processors.
- Strong understanding of signal integrity, crosstalk, and noise reduction techniques in mixed-signal environments, particularly in high-frequency RF systems interfacing with digital processors.
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One unit
- we’re all in this together, with relationships grounded in trust, respect, and camaraderie.
- Arago is backed by executives from Apple, Arm, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Hugging Face, as well as prominent US and European deeptech venture firms and exited founders.
Responsibilities
Language: English at a proficient level. French is a plus.
Required Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience in IC design and post-layout design methodology using standard industry tools like Cadence Virtuoso.
- Advanced node experience required (<28nm).
Pay and benefits
- Competitive cash compensation, with final package based on location, experience, and the pay of team members in similar positions.
- Meaningful stock option plan offered at the earliest stage of the company (included in the majority of full time offers).
- Relocation bonus and coverage of moving expenses for relocation within 20 minutes of the company’s location.
- Healthcare coverage (including family-friendly options), pension contributions, professional development support, and 25 days of PTO, in addition to public holidays.
- Ownership of a key technical domain, with significant vertical and/or horizontal growth opportunities, based on performance and individual drive.
- Reimbursement of 50% of the public transport subscription fee.
- A high-paced, multicultural (with 9 nationalities), and engineering-led environment.
