Staff Electrical Engineer

Description

Responsibilities

• Digital design specification, design, analysis, and HDL (Verilog) coding
• Behavioral modeling of analog and mixed signal circuits
• Digital back-end: synthesis, physical implementation (prep for P&R), static timing, scan insertion, etc.
• Verification of digital sub-systems, mixed-signal sub-systems, and the entire chip using a combination of digital models/RTL, firmware, and behavioral models. Test bench development
• Validation of silicon functionality, behavior, and performance

Required Experience and Skills

• Master's with 7-10 years of IC design experience or PhD with 4-6 years of IC design experience
• Strong motivation to contribute to all facets of chip design from conceptualization to release to production
• Working knowledge of digital IC circuit design in an HDL synthesis environment
• Working knowledge of digital verification and testing techniques
• Good verbal and written communication skills, positive attitude, desire to learn, and willingness to work on a team
• Working knowledge of UNIX operating systems

Additional skills (one or more of these are highly desirable):

• Experience with digital design at geometries ranging from 130-40 nm
• Experience with digital IO interfaces such at I2C, SPI, etc.
• Competence in high-level languages (e.g. Matlab, C), scripting languages (e.g. Tcl, Perl, Python, SKILL), and version control systems (e.g. SVN, SOS)
• Working knowledge of System Verilog and/or UVM
• Experience leading a team of digital designers, either formally or informally
• Experience with embedded processor design and firmware/software development, especially for 8051 or ARM cores
• Competence in exploring digital and firmware system/architecture trade-offs such as memory size (ROM, RAM, FLASH, OTP, cache), clock speed, multiple clock domains, and the necessity for dedicated logic and DSP
• Experience with memory generators and MBIST
• Low power design and implementation techniques
• Familiarity with DSP techniques and algorithms
• Experience with Phase-locked-loops, Frequency Synthesizers or CDR circuits.

Desired Experience and Skills