Graduate Analog Layout & Design Engineer

European Graduate – Analog Layout and Design Engineer

Start date: October 2025

Location: Trento, Italy

• Do you thrive in a diverse and innovation-led environment?
• Do you want to become a part of a global company that inspires you and encourages your creativity?
• Are you a driven, motivated, and passionate person with a can-do attitude?

We are seeking our new European Graduates cohort for October 2025!

Starting in October 2025, our prestigious European Graduate Program provides an immersive experience from day one. Your personal and professional development will be supported by networking sessions with graduates from other European countries and departments, and various trainings, including a six-month development program ‘Making of Champion’ focusing on your leadership skills and attitudes that will enable you to realise more of your potential, achieve meaningful work and personal goals, and develop success habits. All this knowledge and experience will be demonstrated during half-yearly reflection presentations with senior business leaders.

All this will be leveraged during half-yearly reflection presentations with senior business leaders. The Graduate Program consists of two assignments:

• Your first 12-month assignment will be in the Sony Europe Technology Development Centre (EUTDC) in Italy, when you will have the opportunity to work on an R&D assignment, e.g. to develop a new IP. Depending on your willingness and training needs, you will have to opportunity to spend up to one month in our Japanese Head Quarter.
• Afterwards, you will have the opportunity for a second assignment, up to 6 months in another Sony Design Centre in Norway. In this occasion, you will have a chance to gain a dynamic and challenging view of Sony Semiconductor Solutions Europe, its diverse technologies, projects and different markets.
• Finally, in the final 6-month assignment, you will have the opportunity to put in practice what you learn with a new project including product design.

As part of the 2-year program, you will be exposed to a broad range of technologies, resources and activities. You will be given the opportunity to not only expand your knowledge but also immerse yourself in what it means to be a professional in a multinational organisation and to understand where your career could take you.

At the end of your second assignment, in October 2027, you will be ready to thrive & take on a new responsibility and to further develop your career in Sony Europe in a permanent role in our international and multicultural team.

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the Analogue Design Manager, this position is expected to work and be trained on the analog physical layout implementation taking care of the chip floorplanning, analog blocks layout, and physical verification of the CMOS image sensors designed by the team.

You need to have a basic but solid expertise in analogue and mixed-signal IC design, with understanding of common mixed-signal blocks (A/D converters, voltage/current references, bandgaps, amplifiers, PLLs, etc.). Know-how in CMOS image sensors is a benefit.

You will work with cross-functional and multi-cultural teams (e.g. digital design team, analog design team, architecture team), following the EUTDC design methodology. Periodical reporting, design reviews, participation to internal seminars and training are part of the activity.

You will have:

• Master’s Degree in Electronics design. Semiconductor physics is a benefit.
• English speaking
• Basic expertise in full-custom layout using deep-submicron technologies (40nm CMOS or below), with some knowledge of the layout effects on device behaviour and impact on circuit performance is required.
• Experience in physical verification (DRC, LVS) using EDA tools from the main vendors such as Cadence, Synopsys, or MentorGraphics, is a plus.

Our recruitment process:

Once you’ve applied, we’ll carefully review your profile. Afterwards, the selected candidates will be asked to complete a self-service video interview. Once reviewed, we’ll then invite candidates to a first-stage interview with one of our passionate Talent Partners.

The final stage of the process will then be a virtual technical interview with a panel composed by our talented engineers.

Life at Sony:

You will become a part of an extremely supportive & diverse Graduate Network within Sony which will allow you to foster friendships and to build lifelong connections with like-minded graduates. We ensure Competitive Salaries by using established benchmarking and encourage healthy Work-Life Balance with vacation days and hybrid working policies. We are a positive Community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture across Europe.

We are passionate about personal development and continuous learning. To help you get the most out of the Graduate Program, there will be a tailored Development Program with various training modules, career development sessions, mentoring and a range of other Learning & Development programs available to help you learn, grow and lay the building blockers for your career.

We like to celebrate and reward our colleagues who make a real difference using our Recognition platform, Bravo!. We also provide access to numerous services & platforms for all aspects of Wellbeing. We Listen to our people through ongoing conversations and surveys, Respect their suggestions, and act to promote a better placement experience for everyone.

Your new office

Trento - European Technology Development Centre (EUTDC)

Surrounded by Dolomite Alps, the EUTDC is located in Trento (one of the three top cities for life quality in Italy) and sits in a scientific ecosystem where universities, research institutes, companies, and organizations collaborate for the development and design of next generation technologies. Our office offers some extraordinary views of a beautiful landscape, a break room with free hot drinks, and a canteen. Our team is a truly international community, each collaborating with passion and creativity.

Bring your uniqueness to Sony.

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity, and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives that will stimulate innovation and have a direct impact on our creation of social value to fulfil Sony’s purpose – ‘to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology’. We want you to bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture.

We are Sony Europe.

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity, and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique.

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contributes to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale. Bring your passion, creativity, and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together.