Staff Layout Designer

Job Title

Staff Layout Designer

Role Summary

The Staff Layout Designer designs and leads physical layout for mixed-signal and custom digital blocks for advanced NAND products. The role works within a layout team and across CAD, modeling, verification, test, process integration, and product engineering to deliver manufacturable tape-outs.

Primary mission: produce high-quality floorplans, placement, routing, parasitic-aware layouts, and mentor junior designers to enable product tape-outs and future memory generations.

Experience Level

Senior. Specific years of experience not stated.

Responsibilities

Typical responsibilities include:

• Design and integrate complex analog circuits (e.g., CMOS amplifiers, comparators, bandgap references, LDOs, charge pumps, oscillators, DLLs, IO buffers, analog test muxes, process monitors, temperature sensors) into product layouts.
• Implement and integrate synchronous and asynchronous custom digital blocks.
• Lead and oversee layout tasks: floor-planning, placement, routing, and tape-out preparation.
• Create and use parasitic models; support design validation, reticle experiments, and tape-out revisions.
• Collaborate with Probe, Assembly, Test, Process Integration, and Product Engineering to ensure manufacturability.
• Work with CAD, modeling, and verification teams to improve layout quality and flows.
• Contribute to new product development and optimization across Memory/Logic/Analog domains.
• Mentor and lead junior designers; drive standardization and cross-group communication.

Requirements

Must-have skills and experience:

• Proven experience in layout for analog circuits and custom digital blocks relevant to advanced memory products.
• Hands-on experience with floor-planning, placement, routing, and tape-out flows.
• Experience with parasitic extraction/modeling and layout-driven design validation.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with test, process integration, CAD, and product teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead layout projects and mentor junior designers.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience specifically with NAND/memory technologies and analog IP used in memory products.
• Experience driving layout standardization or automation efforts.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Micron Technology

Headquarters: Boise, Idaho, USA

Micron Technology is a global leader in memory and storage solutions, dedicated to transforming how the world uses information. The company offers a diverse portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory products under the Micron and Crucial brands. With a commitment to customer focus and technological innovation, Micron drives advancements in artificial intelligence, 5G, and other data-centric applications, empowering users to learn, communicate, and progress.