We are looking for a motivated graduate or PhD candidate to work towards his thesis in the Switching Competence Center of the Low Voltage & ST iGaN MACRO-Division (LGS) inside the Automotive and Discrete Group (ADG).

The team is tasked with developing and industrializing power management products for the automotive market with a strong focus on applications enabled by GaN (gallium nitride) devices, both as a power device driven with BCD (Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) controllers as well as a monolithic technology platform.

Objectives:

• Define with the candidate and complete a suitable thesis work that is both challenging and feasible within a well-defined timeframe.
  Possible topics range from the high-voltage, high-power domain (DC-DC power stages or control) to the low-voltage analog mixed-signal and power management domain.
• Work with skilled professionals and be mentored by them to develop hands-on experience in analog design.

Activities:

• Design mixed-signal analog blocks according to specifications and validate them across process variations and applicative conditions.
• Support and direct the layout execution and check for layout correctness via PLS (post-layout simulations).
• Contribute to the definition and implementation of test requirements for the blocks under your responsibility.
• Produce design documentation and reporting of your results.
• Evaluate and debug your designs on engineering samples in the lab, if samples availability matches the thesis timeframe.

Competencies to be acquired:

• Hands-on experience in analog IC design for automotive products meant to go in production.
• Become familiar with the analog design flow and EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools, namely Cadence/Mentor suites & simulators.
• Knowledge of power electronics, DCDC converters and GaN technology.
• Knowledge of modeling techniques & languages (Simulink, VerilogA, etc.)

• Master’s or PhD student in Electronics Engineering area.
• Integrated analog design background with knowledge of basic analog building blocks.
• Strong teamwork capability and communication skills.
• Good written/spoken English.

Job Location:

• On-site in Castelletto design center (Cornaredo, Milan area) and smart-working.