Principal Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer
- Location
- Boston
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Compensation
- $200k – $325k + equity
- Visa
- Visa Sponsorship Available
About this role
We are looking for a Principal Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer with 6+ years of experience to lead the design of next-generation thermodynamic computing chips. Extropic is building a fundamentally new compute paradigm that leverages thermal noise in CMOS to perform probabilistic sampling — with potential 10,000x power savings over traditional approaches. You'll join a ~30-person team that just taped out their third chip (Z1) and is now defining the architecture for three upcoming chips. This is a ground-floor opportunity to own major pieces of chip design at a company poised to reshape AI acceleration and edge computing.
What will you be doing?
- Leading the design of analog and mixed-signal blocks (ADCs, PLLs, bandgaps, regulators, high-speed serializers/deserializers, oscillators, and dividers) for upcoming chip tape-outs
- Owning large chunks of chip architecture and potentially serving as design lead for one of three planned chips
- Performing hands-on layout work as well as design verification (DRC, ERC, LVS) in a startup environment where everyone gets their hands dirty
- Collaborating across IC, systems, physics, and algorithms teams to translate probabilistic computing concepts into silicon implementations
- Contributing to lab testing and validation of fabricated chips using signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and oscilloscopes
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Culture & values
Team of approximately 30 people operates as a tight-knit, full-stack organization
Structured across four core groups: Algorithms, Systems, Physics, and IC Design that work in close collaboration
Everyone gets their hands dirty, from VP of Engineering doing layout work to engineers picking up tasks outside their core specialty
Distinctly startup culture
Leadership values intellectual curiosity, deep technical intuition, and the willingness to tackle unglamorous but necessary work
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