Director of Integrated Circuit Design: Proteus Biomedical

Innovative medical device company, headquartered in Redwood City, California, was founded with a passion for improving the lives of people with chronic disease. The company is developing intelligent medicine products internally and in partnership with device, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. These products address therapeutic areas where disease management complexity, patient monitoring requirements, therapeutic efficacy, and poor patient adherence create large clinical and commercial opportunities. The company currently has three products in development that target cardiac disease and heart failure, including a program in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in partnership with a world-leader in cardiovascular implantable devices.

Offering a great opportunity for a Director of Integrated Circuit Design in their Redwood City, CA facility.

Primary Responsibilities:

The position will be responsible for leading the integrated circuit development process. This will include managing an in-house IC development team as well as overseeing outsourced IC projects. The IC group is responsible for creating low-power mixed analog / digital CMOS circuits for implantable medical devices.

Experience Profile:

· Electrical engineer with a proven track record of delivering full-custom integrated circuits that satisfy product requirements.

· Management: Experience in building and leading an IC development team.

· Accomplishment: Demonstrated success in the full cycle of IC-based product creation, regulatory approval, and market introduction.

· Analog: transistor-level design – signal conditioning, signal processing, communications with an emphasis on very low power design (uA’s) and creative problem solving.

· Digital: Design using Verilog behavioral language, synthesis, synchronous combinational logic in schematic capture, microprocessor programming.

· Manufacturability: Control of entire design process from architecture to release of tested product

· Documentation: Create product development documentation to support regulatory filings including: Technical Files for UL, CE and FDA (510(k), IDE, PMA) applications.

· Creative: Anticipates issues in functional area and implements solutions.

· Team player - willing to work as individual contributor and as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the success of the enterprise.

· Self-starter - motivated and able to work without extensive direction.

Education Requirements:

Must have bachelors degree in EE, advanced degree preferred.