Electrical Engineer, ASIC Program Lead-CA

About Synchron

Synchron's vision is to build non-surgical brain-computer interfaces at global scale that protect the fundamental human rights of freedom of expression and autonomy. Our first mission is to develop motor decoders that restore the ability of 15 million people with paralysis to interact with the digital world. Our second mission is to develop whole-brain cognitive decoders that enable hundreds of millions of people with cognitive decline to preserve and expand their agency as cognition changes over time.

In pursuing these goals, we aim not only to help humans flourish, but also to drive fundamental discoveries in human intelligence. Our team operates at the intersection of healthcare and technology, translating breakthrough research into real-world, safety-critical systems.

Principal Electrical Engineer, ASIC Program Lead

Department:

Location:

On-Site - San Diego, CA

Employment Type:

Full-Time

Experience

Required:

12+ years

About the Role

Our next-generation system will utilize custom silicon to capture neural signals at the fidelity, power, and reliability a chronic implant demands. We are hiring a Principal Electrical Engineer to own that silicon. You will be the technical owner of our custom ASIC program. This is a senior individual contributor and technical leadership role for someone who has successfully shepherded a custom ASIC from early concept and specification generation through design, verification, silicon bring-up, qualification, and production release.

That end-to-end ASIC experience is the most important requirement for this role.

The ideal candidate has a strong mixed-signal foundation, with deep analog expertise in neural analog front-end systems and verification, combined with strong digital experience in data path architecture, multiplexing, serialization, timing, signal integrity, and reliable digital handling of high-channel-count neural data within the system architecture. This person will work across internal electrical, firmware, signal processing, mechanical, clinical, manufacturing, and external ASIC design/vendor teams to ensure the ASIC meets system-level performance, reliability, power, and production requirements.

This role requires both technical depth and broad electrical engineering judgment. The Principal Electrical Engineer will be expected to drive requirements, make architecture tradeoffs, review vendor work, lead verification strategy, support bring-up and debugging, and help translate custom silicon into a production-ready implantable medical device system.

Key Responsibilities

* Lead the custom ASIC program from concept and specification through verification, silicon bring-up, qualification, and production release.

* Own ASIC requirements and architecture tradeoffs across neural signal acquisition, analog front-end performance, digital data path design, power, testability, reliability, manufacturability, and system integration.

* Drive verification strategy for the ASIC and broader electrical system, with emphasis on low-noise AFE performance, high-channel-count data handling, timing, interfaces, and signal integrity.

* Serve as the primary technical interface with ASIC vendors, semiconductor design partners, foundries, packaging partners, and production test resources.

* Lead pre-silicon and post-silicon debugging, characterization, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions across analog, digital, firmware, packaging, PCB, and system boundaries.

* Define and support production test strategy, including DFT/DFM considerations, test coverage, qualification data review, yield improvement, and manufacturing issue resolution.

* Partner with firmware, systems, signal processing, mechanical, clinical, quality, regulatory, and manufacturing teams to ensure the ASIC meets product-level performance and reliability requirements.

* Contribute to design reviews, technical risk assessments, FMEA, verification documentation, regulatory documentation, and design history files.

Required Qualifications

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. Advanced degree preferred.

* 10+ years of experience in electrical…