Qualified high-bandwidth accelerometer in Airpods. Lead novel pressure and IMU sensors architecture into mass products for the consumer electronics market.Identify, create and document new sensing system metrics and specifications that deliver performance that matter to customer perception.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define sensor that integrate in products.Scope new sensing technologies and proof-of-concept investigations.Interact with suppliers and drive sensor designs to enable new or improved user experience.

Design, simulation and evaluation of ADC and DAC blocks for Low power RF.Chip debugging in the lab: noise and digital signal coupling ; ADC stability. Layout optimization of a 12-bits SAR-ADCDesign optimization of an IOPad: delay improved by a factor 3 keeping the same power and area consumption. Layout supervision in a international and multi-site environment.

My PhD was part of a joint research program between Leti (in Grenoble, France) and Caltech (in Pasadena, USA) centered on Nanosystems VLSI and my role consisted in designing mass or gas sensors using MEMS resonators. Leti is the most advanced research center on MEMS and electronics in France. My PhD work contributed to the creation of a start-up, APIX Technology (http://www.minatec.com/en/ressources/minatec/breve/apix-technology-brings-multi-gas-emissions-analyzers-mass-market) that designs gas sensors from nanomechanical cantilevers that can be used to monitor household air quality or for security applications. My research involves the electronic design for MEMS resonator (MEMS/CMOS 2D and 3D co-integration, stand-alone ASIC, discrete components). I have participated so-far at 2 journal papers (1 as first author), 10 conferences (including the prestigious ISSCC2012 as first author and MEMS2012) and 4 patents (pending).During my PhD, I have acquired experience in:• 130nm-integrated circuit design and layout (HCMOS9 from ST Microelectronics).• 2D and 3D NEMS/CMOS co-integrated design and layout(0.35 µm, 300nm, 30nm transistor’s length). They have been fabricated using SOI design kit from LETI or from ST.• Discrete electronic design and characterization.• Noise modeling and measurement.• Teamwork: 5 projects with over 5 colleagues per project.• International environment: alliance with Caltech (USA)• Scientific oral and writing skills: 2 publications, 10 conferences.My PhD thesis is available on the following link:http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/65/88/43/PDF/ARNDT_Gregory_thesis_vf.pdf

During my master internship, I developed a novel characterization method in order to determine the piezoelectric coefficient using a pure electrical measurement.The associated characterization consisted in dynamic electrical and optical measurement of a PZT-microcantilever.The modeling involved material, electrical, physical and mechanical aspects.The characterization method was successful and was published in an international scientific journal.

Summer engineer internship in Chelmsford U.K. (next to London)The internship consisted into characterizing high performance and low light CCD sensors for imaging. The characterization involved optical and electrical measurement requiring solid state background.

The aim of my final year project was to control an PZE actuator through a micro controller. The technique to drive the PZE actuator has been given free. After rejecting the idea of using a feedback loop because of a too slow time response of the micro controller an physical modeling of the PZE actuator has been elaborated.The PZE actuator behavior has been approximated to a sum of simple hysteresis cycles in order to correct the hysteresis of the material through the micro controllerThe project provided microchip programming and physical modeling skills