Senior Digital Design Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Logic Design Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Developing micro-architecture specification of the logic circuit from reading and comprehending the Product Requirement Document (PRD)
• Developing the Register Transfer Level (RTL) design from the micro-architecture specification using Verilog or SystemVerilog as the HDL
• Developing standalone testbenches to verify the RTL behavior
• Writing and verifying SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) for a design
• Writing timing constraints and clock definition for synthesis and place and route tools
• Running industry-standard synthesis tools (e.g., Genus or Design Compiler) and being able to fix the timing problems if they arise
• Understanding various design tradeoffs including timing/area/power and knowing how to improve them
• Reading and understanding the Static Timing Analysis (STA) reports from an industry-standard STA tool (e.g., Prime Time)
• Cross functional interactions and communication with various teams including analog, verification, backend, system and test engineering teams
• Post-Si bring-up, validation and debugging

Qualifications & Requirements (Education must be included):

Minimum Requirements:

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering plus 5 years of relevant work experience in the industry 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Proficient in Verilog and SystemVerilog
• Expertise in digital logic design fundamentals such as clock divider circuits, multi-clock logic designs, CDC, FIFO, FSM, etc
• Experience in designing mixed-signal digital logic
• Basic understanding of Discrete time Signal Processing theory, FIR and IIR filter design
• Solid experience in digital design flow including RTL design, synthesis, timing constraints, and STA
• Skilled in scripting languages Perl/Tcl/Python

Desired Characteristics & Attributes:

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in electrical/computer engineering plus 3 years of relevant industry experience
• 2-5 years of experience in designing high-precision digital arithmetic logic and Digital Signal Processing
• 2-5 years of experience in designing Digital Phase-Locked Loops (DPLL)
• Experience in complex FSM design
• Familiarity with MATLAB, Simulink or any other high-level modeling tools
• Experience in low-power digital design flow
• Basic understanding of the Control Theory