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About the Role

The Design Director leads the Dallas Design Center’s analog/mixed-signal IC design organization, responsible for New Product Introduction (NPI) in the Power Path category. This player-coach leadership position combines deep hands-on analog/power IC design expertise with proven design management capability to deliver first-pass silicon success, develop engineering talent, and build the design capability that supports the Power Path growth strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multi-disciplinary team of analog/mixed-signal design, digital design, verification, and layout/mask design engineers executing concurrent NPI projects.
• Own technical oversight of all design phases: product architecture, circuit design, simulation and verification, physical layout, tape-out, silicon bring-up/validation, and characterization support.
• Drive first-pass silicon success through rigorous design review discipline and design-for-quality practices.
• Contribute to product definition in partnership with Systems Engineering and Product Management.
• Drive the shared IP core strategy across the Power Path portfolio, maximizing design reuse and time-to-market.
• Plan and allocate design resources across concurrent NPIs; own design capacity planning, EDA/CAD tooling needs, and critical-competency coverage.
• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain top design engineering talent; conduct performance management and build succession depth.
• Collaborate across global design sites and cross-functional partners to ensure aligned, on-schedule NPI execution.
• Support key customer engagements: design-in support, technical escalation resolution, and customer-facing representation.
• Maintain competitive awareness of benchmark products and design approaches and apply insights to product definition and design differentiation.
• Provide sustaining design support for released products: failure analysis, yield enhancement, and design-related quality issue resolution.
• Act as site design leadership for the Dallas Design Center, partnering with HR, Facilities, and corporate functions.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering; MSEE/PhD preferred, with focus on analog and/or power IC circuit design.
• 10+ years of hands-on analog/mixed-signal power IC design experience, including transistor-level circuit design, physical layout oversight, and silicon validation in BCD/BiCMOS/CMOS process technologies (12V–150V class).
• Demonstrated design management experience leading teams of 10+ engineers across design, verification, and layout disciplines, with a sustained track record of released products in volume production.
• Direct design experience in power-path protection and distribution products — eFuses, load switches, ideal diode controllers, hot-swap controllers, surge stoppers — or closely adjacent power management ICs.
• Deep command of power management design fundamentals: integrated power FETs, charge pumps, current-sense and current-limit architectures, protection circuits, precision references, comparators, and low-IQ design techniques.
• Mastery of modern analog design flows and verification methodologies (Cadence environment, SPICE-class simulation, LVS/DRC, reliability sign-off).
• Track record of first-pass silicon success and datasheet-quality documentation ownership; patents and publications a plus.
• Proven people leadership: hiring, mentoring, performance management, and team development.
• Succinct executive communication that captures risk, status, and progress accurately.
• Excellent analytical skills and structured, disciplined work approach.
• Entrepreneurial ownership mentality; drives lowest-risk path that achieves project need.
• Strong customer focus and credibility in direct customer engagements.
• Intercultural awareness and effectiveness leading and collaborating in global, multi-site teams.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Skills

• Analog/mixed-signal IC design
• Power IC design
• Design management
• Product concept to Release-for-Supply execution
• Analog/power IC design expertise
• Design management capability
• First-pass silicon success
• Engineering talent development
• Design capability building
• Product architecture
• Transistor-level circuit design
• Simulation and verification
• Physical layout
• Tape-out
• Silicon bring-up/validation
• Characterization support
• Design review discipline
• Design-for-quality practices (ESD, latch-up, EM/IR, DFT, DFM)
• Product definition
• Systems Engineering
• Product Management
• IC development trade-offs
• Design specifications
• Shared IP core strategy
• Design reuse
• Time-to-market
• Resource allocation
• Capacity planning
• EDA/CAD tooling
• Competency coverage
• Recruiting
• Mentoring
• Talent retention
• Performance management
• Succession planning
• Global collaboration
• Cross-functional partnership
• Customer engagement
• Design-in support
• Technical escalation resolution
• Competitive awareness
• Sustaining design support
• Failure analysis
• Yield enhancement
• Quality issue resolution
• Site design leadership
• BCD/BiCMOS/CMOS process technologies (12V–150V class)
• Power-path protection and distribution products
• eFuses
• Load switches
• Ideal diode controllers
• Hot-swap controllers
• Surge stoppers
• Power management ICs
• Integrated power FETs
• Charge pumps
• Current-sense architectures
• Current-limit architectures
• Protection circuits (OVP/UVLO/OCP/TSD)
• Precision references
• Comparators
• Low-IQ design techniques
• Modern analog design flows
• Verification methodologies
• Cadence environment
• SPICE-class simulation
• LVS/DRC
• Reliability sign-off
• Datasheet documentation
• People leadership
• Executive communication
• Analytical skills
• Structured work approach
• Disciplined work approach
• Customer focus
• Intercultural awareness
• Global team collaboration
• Multi-site team collaboration

Location

• Dallas

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 10+ years of hands-on analog/mixed-signal power IC design experience
• Demonstrated design management experience leading teams of 10+ engineers

Education Level

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• MSEE/PhD preferred

Benefits

• Strong healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision, etc.)
• Work/life balance
• Tremendous career growth opportunities
• 401K with company match
• Generous PTO and company holidays
• Education and wellness benefits

About the Company

• Nexperia is a world-class company in semiconductor development and in-house production.
• A proven global player with an entrepreneurial mentality.
• At our core is an 12,000+ strong international network with a singular focus.
• Built on passion and commitment to our work, belief in our goals and a drive to succeed regardless of the challenges we face.
• We support, reward and challenge individuals equally, in a dynamic and energetic environment.

Equal Opportunity

• Nexperia is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.
• Nexperia’s management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, TeamNexperian’s activities, access to facilities and programs and general treatment during employment.
• As an equal-opportunity employer, Nexperia values diversity not just because it is the right thing to do but because diverse teams perform better.
• We are dedicated to being inclusive, and a proof point of this dedication is that we were the main partner of the very first Dutch Paralympic Team NL House during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
• Our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all, and we consider all applicants fairly, as well as providing a safe work environment and reasonable adjustments where requested.
• In addition, we offer our colleagues the possibility to join employee resource groups such as the Pride Network Group or global and local Women's groups.
• Nexperia is committed to increasing women in management positions to 30% by 2030.