A cello analog designer asked me about compensation for analog design, my teply to him was as follow, please comment if you have any insites in this topic "Analog design is a very detailed oriented process, you need to know semiconductor physics, control system theory , electrical design fundamentals, electromagnetics etc. It take time to understand all of this, you need to spend time reading about this, along with this you also need good knowledge of scripting languages like python, perl, tcl, c etc. If you are able to understand these things and are good at coding then sky is the limit for the compensation. With experience of 3 to 5 years analog designer can make a base of 150k to 200k in bay area, rsu and bonus changes case to case. Some compabys give flat bonus of 20% along with yearly increments"
Analog design is not SW, it needs rich experience and hands on experience you need at least 10-15 years direct experience in analog circuit design and hands on debug and testing experience, 3 to 5 years experience is pretty junior.
200k is what some analog engineers are getting at my work , but they have phd
Is this TI? My friend was hired in at TI, PhD + 8yoe (prior to PhD) and isn’t making $200K.
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I dont think you will get $200k base with 5 yoe in analog design in any HW company- only in extremely rare cases. $150k-$160k should be the upper bound not more than that. This is just for base salary.