The UK arm of Analog Devices, a US chip company, with a design centre in Edinburgh working on audio and mixed-signal chips.
Analog Devices (ADI) designs chips that connect the physical world to the digital one. The real world is analog: sound, temperature, light, motion and radio waves all change smoothly. ADI's chips measure and convert those signals into data a computer can use, and its range includes analog, mixed-signal, power, radio-frequency, digital and sensor products. It says its chips are used in factories, cars, digital healthcare, communications and consumer devices, and it describes its aim as enabling breakthroughs at the "Intelligent Edge".
ADI was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts. It describes itself on UK job pages as a place where "Innovation meets Impact", with emphasis on individual judgement, autonomy, mentoring and professional development. Another posting says ADI operates "at the center of the modern digital economy". Staff pages describe a collaborative, diverse and knowledge-sharing environment. These are company statements, and we did not find a separate UK mission.
In the UK, the confirmed site is in Edinburgh, at 2 Freer Street, in the city centre. ADI built its Scottish presence early: in 1987 a trade report said it planned to assemble and test integrated circuits at Linlithgow near Edinburgh, and in 2000 it was recruiting for a new Edinburgh design centre, having bought a local software firm called Edinburgh Portable Compilers in 1999. Today job adverts describe an Edinburgh team within ADI's Personal Electronics Solutions audio group, which designs high-performance audio chips for consumer products. This is the same city that had been home to Wolfson Microelectronics, a well known audio chip company.
The adverts describe work on clock synthesizers and phase-locked loops, which are circuits that keep timing precise in audio chips, and on low-power analog and mixed-signal designs. Engineers design and simulate circuits, plan how to verify them, work with layout engineers, lead design reviews and test chips in the lab. They collaborate with colleagues at other ADI sites, with around ten per cent travel mentioned in one advert. ADI reports about 24,000 employees worldwide, but a UK-only number was not found.
Built In lists UK roles beyond chip design, including embedded software, front-end software, finance, tax and legal positions, so the Edinburgh office is part of a wider company with many functions. If you enjoy maths, physics or electronics and want a career making the technology inside phones and headphones, ADI is one of a small number of chip companies with a design team in Scotland.
Website: www.analog.com
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