ESD Design Expert

Role Summary

The ACC CTO ESD/EMC Team drives robustness excellence across NXPs product portfolio by enabling First-Pass-Right product development through advanced EMC and ESD methodologies innovative design solutions validation capabilities and technology leadership.

As an ESD Design Expert you will serve as a recognized technical leader responsible for defining and deploying advanced ESD protection solutions across multiple product lines and semiconductor technologies. Leveraging your extensive experience in analog IC design ESD protection and product robustness you will influence architecture decisions drive innovation mentor engineers and shape the future ESD & EMC strategy for NXPs automotive and industrial products.

You will collaborate closely with technology development product lines validation teams package engineering and system architects to deliver highly robust and competitive semiconductor solutions.

ESD: ElectroStatic Discharge EMC: ElectroMagnetic Compatibility

Responsibilities

• Define and drive ESD protection strategies architectures and roadmaps for new product families and emerging technologies.

• Lead the design optimization and validation of advanced on-chip ESD protection solutions for analog mixed-signal high-voltage and automotive integrated circuits.

• Establish ESD design methodologies rules best practices and reusable design libraries across the organization.

• Provide technical leadership during product development ensuring First-Pass-Right robustness while balancing reliability performance silicon area power consumption and cost.

• Drive ESD sign-off reviews and support critical design decisions across multiple development programs.

• Lead complex ESD investigations characterization campaigns failure analysis activities and root-cause assessments.

• Partner with EMC experts to develop holistic chip and system-level robustness solutions.

• Collaborate with technology development teams to define future ESD devices and process capabilities.

• Develop advanced simulation modeling automation and AI-assisted methodologies to improve design efficiency and predict robustness issues earlier in the development cycle.

• Act as the technical interface for customer escalations and strategic robustness challenges.

• Drive innovation through patents publications university partnerships and technology research programs.

• Mentor and coach design engineers fostering technical excellence and knowledge sharing across the organization.

Profile

Education

• Masters Degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Microelectronics Semiconductor Physics or a related discipline.

Experience & Technical Skills

• 10 to 20 years of experience in ESD protection design or analog/mixed-signal IC design
• EMC-aware analog design knowledge is a plus.
• Deep expertise in semiconductor device physics and analog integrated circuit design.
• Proven experience developing ESD protection solutions for analog mixed-signal high-voltage power management automotive products or communication transceivers.
• Strong knowledge of ESD and robustness standards including HBM CDM IECISO 10605 TLP VF-TLP latch-up and system-level ESD requirements.
• Extensive experience with EDA simulation tools device modeling and silicon debug.
• Strong understanding of chip-package-system interactions and robustness challenges.
• Experience with advanced technologies such as CMOS BCD SOI FinFET or high-voltage processes.
• Proven track record of solving complex reliability and robustness challenges in production products.
• Experience leading technical projects and influencing cross-functional engineering teams.

Personal Skills

• Recognized technical leadership and ability to influence strategic decisions.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured approach to complex technical challenges.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work effectively across global and multidisciplinary organization
• Strong mentoring and coaching capabilities.
• Passion for innovation continuous improvement and technology leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Recognized expert in ESD EMC or analog IC design.

• Experience in automotive functional safety and high-reliability semiconductor products.

• Track record of patents technical publications conference presentations or industry contributions.

• Experience defining corporate design methodologies standards or technology roadmaps.

• Knowledge of AI-assisted circuit design automation data analytics or machine learning applications for semiconductor development.

Impact

In this role you will play a key role in shaping NXPs ESD robustness strategy enabling industry-leading reliability and First-Pass-Right success for next-generation automotive and industrial semiconductor solutions. As a technical expert within the ACC CTO organization you will influence technologies products methodologies and engineering excellence across the company.