As a Senior Analog Design Engineer, I design the circuits inside semiconductor chips that interact with the real world — managing power, protecting against electrical damage, and ensuring signals remain clean and accurate.
My work spans the full design cycle: translating system requirements into circuit architectures, simulating behavior across thousands of process, voltage, and temperature conditions, and verifying reliability through formal design reviews before manufacture. This includes ensuring chips survive real world hazards like electrostatic discharge through specialized verification flows, and analyzing power integrity to prevent failures from electromigration and voltage drop.
I collaborate closely with digital designers, physical layout engineers, and IP vendors to integrate analog blocks into complex system-on-chip designs. Once a chip returns from fabrication I validate that the silicon matches simulations — and when unexpected issues arise I root cause and resolve them to keep programs on schedule.
Beyond design work, I contribute to the broader engineering community as a peer reviewer for international IEEE conferences and journals, evaluating cutting-edge research in circuits and systems. I also represent my organization at major industry exhibitions, presenting analog and mixed-signal technologies to engineers, customers, and media at global events such as CES and NAMM.
My expertise spans power management, ESD reliability, high-speed interface design, and ADC signal processing. The chips I have contributed to are deployed across consumer electronics, wearable devices, and high-speed data center platforms at companies including Intel and Analog Devices.”
What advice would you give to your 15 year old self
Choose depth over breadth. The thing that makes you different is not how many things you know — it is how deeply you understand the few things you truly care about. Analog design is hard precisely because it requires that depth. Embrace it early.
Who or what inspired you to get into engineering?
Growing up in India where engineering — especially electronics — carries genuine prestige and promise. It was a path that made sense for me.
And then my Master’s at UC Irvine — where I went from theory to actually designing circuits that worked on silicon. That moment when simulation meets real hardware is probably when analog design engineering stopped being a subject and became a calling.
What are the best and worst things about the job?
“The Best:
The moment silicon returns from fabrication and performs exactly as designed. Months of careful engineering validated in a single measurement — there is nothing quite like it. I also genuinely love solving hard problems that require deep physical intuition. When a difficult circuit finally works it feels truly earned.
The Worst:
The work is unforgiving. A single wrong design decision can affect an entire chip, sometimes discovered only after fabrication at significant cost and delay. That responsibility is always present. Tape-out periods also bring long hours and intense pressure that are hard to switch off from.”
What was your route into Engineering?
Full-time university degree
Where do you see your industry in 25-50 years’ time?
“Over the next 25 to 50 years semiconductors will only become more important. Every AI system, autonomous vehicle, and smart device runs on chips. Without continued innovation in semiconductor design none of these technologies can advance. Chips are the foundation everything else is built on.
What makes this industry unique is that it cannot be easily disrupted. Building chips requires deep physics knowledge, decades of engineering expertise, and complex manufacturing that cannot be replicated quickly. That makes semiconductors irreplaceable.
As an analog designer I work on a part of this that will always be needed. AI systems require clean power, stable voltage, and reliable signal processing — problems that are fundamentally analog. No matter how advanced digital technology becomes, it will always need the analog layer beneath it to connect with the real world. That is where I work and that is why I believe analog design will remain critical for decades to come.”
How does your work relate to the sustainable development goals?
The circuits I design — power management blocks, low dropout regulators, and energy efficient analog subsystems — directly reduce power consumption in electronic devices. More efficient chips mean less energy consumed across billions of devices worldwide, contributing to affordable and clean energy goals and climate action.
Have you had any career setbacks or challenges, and how did you overcome them?
“The most significant challenge I have faced was navigating a family health crisis while continuing to build my career. It was a period that tested everything — focus, resilience, and confidence. Engineering demands full presence and deep concentration, and maintaining that through personal difficulty was genuinely hard.
Overcoming it required accepting that rebuilding takes time. I focused on what I could control — my work, my health, and gradually rebuilding my confidence one achievement at a time. That period taught me that resilience is not about pretending difficulty does not exist. It is about continuing to show up anyway.”