Chris Jacobs is Vice President of the Autonomous Transportation & Automotive Safety business unit at Analog Devices. He is an expert on the sensing technologies that power autonomous driving and is responsible for overseeing Analog Devices’ development of next-generation Inertial MEMS, RADAR and LIDAR solutions for industrial and automotive autonomous systems. These human-like sensing technologies are foundational to the autonomy that will be standard in the transportation systems of tomorrow. During his nearly 25-year tenure, Chris has held a number of design engineering, design management, and business leadership positions within Analog Devices’ Consumer, Communications, Industrial and Automotive groups. Chris earned a B.S. in computer engineering from Clarkson University, a M.S. in electrical engineering from Northeastern University and a MBA from Boston College.

The pop in their job – what motivates them
Chris is especially enthused by working on difficult engineering and business challenges that will advance autonomous systems and positively impact society.

Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) http://www.analog.com defines innovation and excellence in signal processing. ADI's analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (IC) play a fundamental role in converting, conditioning, and processing real-world phenomena such as light, sound, temperature, motion, and pressure into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of electronic equipment.