Digital IC Design Engineer

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Designers bring semiconductors to life by defining, developing and/or modifying digital electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry. They work with other designers and the broader R&D and demand creation teams to align on approaches and parameters for a given device, creating block level specifications for the designs. They take the designs through the concept, implementation, and validation phases and then into mass production. Designers also conduct tests and analyze data to ensure the chosen methods are optimal for the defined specifications and reliability requirements.

About the Team

As a member of the Embedded Processors team, you will be working on state-of-the-art processors and microcontrollers to make the world smarter, safer, and greener. These products are the heart of autonomous vehicles, intelligent robots, electric vehicles, and energy efficient homes and push the boundaries of technology integrating high-speed interface controllers, networking accelerators, deep learning accelerators, DSPs, ARM/RISC-V compute cores, vision analytics, security, and multimedia. You will help build products that will transform the world by making technology reachable, affordable and accessible for all.

About the Job

The job offers the opportunity to Design, Architect and Micro-architect IPs enabling data movement, interconnect, safety, security, Realtime functionality and broader infrastructure components to help develop Embedded Processors. As an IP owner, you will drive the requirements gathering, design, and implementation of the IP’s to ensure that the differentiated IP meets all functional requirements as well as holds high quality standards.

You will interface with various engineering teams within the product line including SoC Design, Verification, Validation, Test, Systems, Applications and Marketing to successfully execute new IP’s from concept to design.

You will be a core member in the IP Design team driving flawless execution, while finding innovative solutions to customers’ problems through “out of the box thinking” to deliver highly differentiated products.

Job Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

- Be a key team member from IP requirement definition till release to market, working closely with all cross-functional teams

- Define or enhance the micro-architecture for digital IP blocks

- RTL development and QC flows to ensure superior IP quality

- Interface with 3 rd party IP vendors and drive requirements and delivery milestones/quality

- Work closely with IP verification team to help build the IP verification plan and tests. Support functional debugs

- Support IP during silicon bring-up activities, test program development, customer engagement and silicon/application debug

- Drive IP architectural optimization for area, power and performance improvements

Minimum requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in Design/RTL/DV development
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Hands-on front-end design experience of complex multi clock domain IP blocks
- Ability to convert high level system requirements/changes into micro-architectural changes and then into RTL
- Must know Verilog
- Experience with Lint checkers, Clock domain crossing (CDC) checkers, Synthesis and timing-closure
- Must have worked with simulation and waveform debug tools (eg: Cadence simvision)

Preferred qualifications:

- Expertise in High-speed Interface IPs (DDR, USB, CSI, DSI, PCIe, UCIe)
- Experience with System Verilog
- Experience with scripting languages such as Tcl, Perl, and Python
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
- Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
- Verification and validation experiences are a plus