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You enjoy creating and innovating. You never stop striving for better. You take responsibility and you get results. You love being part of a team. Above all, you want your work to matter: Welcome to our world! At Sonova we create sense by bringing sound to life. Our innovative hearing care solutions help millions of people enjoy life’s unforgettable moments.

We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, products and services that keep pushing hearing care forward, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.

If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.

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Staefa, Switzerland

Analog Microelectronic Development Engineer

Research & Development delivers hearing solutions and services for hearing impaired people, hearing care professionals, and further related people, in the form of hearing devices, accessories, web services, mobile applications, and PC software.

Developing and testing microelectronics is your passion. Your 3+ years of experience in development, testing, verification and maintaining of SoC/ASICs will build further on our success. Embedded in an international research and development team, you will support product creations by taking over responsibility for the analog part of our ASICs used in our hearing instruments. You will use state of the art technology and software to develop the best in class products.

 

Your tasks

 

  • Define analog SoC/ASIC requirements that meet stakeholder needs, including: power management circuits, ADC, DAC, IC backend & testing 
  • Contribute to SoC/ASIC specification with external semiconductor partners
  • Verify, Integrate & validate the IC and passive components according to the requirements & specification
  • Develop IC testing concept & support IC qualification for industrialization
  • Define and develop circuits for the verification/validation environment
  • Support PCB development including schematic & layout review
  • Run spice, power distribution network and signal integrity simulations on our PCBs
  • Define and maintain the Hardware measurement setups and tools for the electrical verification of the electronic systems/platforms.
  • Support for microsystems related issues in Operations and R&D

 

Your profile

 

  • University degree in microelectronic engineering or equivalent
  • 3+ years experience in analog circuits design
  • Experience with PDN, SI and Spice simulators 
  • Experience with electronic labor test equipment 
  • Experience in Hardware / Software setups and tools for ASIC functional emulation, verification and IC characterization
  • Good understanding of low power SoC and ASIC architectures including the related tradeoffs with a focus on analog circuit: PMU, ADC, DAC circuit and IC testing concept 
  • Good know-how in Phyton scripting and Microcontroller programming
  • Know-how in PCB design tools like Altium Designer
  • Able to structure tasks, solution-oriented and quality aware
  • Willing to work in a distributed, diverse collaboration environment
  • Fluent in both, spoken and written English

 

Our offer


We can offer you a new challenge, with interesting tasks and much more – including an open corporate culture, flat hierarchies, support for further training and development, opportunities to take on responsibility, an excellent range of foods, sports and cultural facilities, attractive employment conditions, and flexible working time models in various roles. 
Employment level 80-100%.

 

Pascal Spycher, Talent Acquisition Manager, is looking forward to receiving your complete application (cover letter, CV, references and certificates) via our online job application platform.

 

For this vacancy only direct applications will be considered. 

 

Sonova AG
Laubisrütistrasse 28
CH-8712 Stäfa
+41 58 928 01 01

Sonova is an equal opportunity employer.

We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate’s ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.

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