Job description

OVERVIEW

Built on a 30-year legacy of technology advancements and a strong IP portfolio, but with a new mission— to enhance its world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, their product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning, and RF frontends.

These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices, and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, the team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster, and better.


JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Staff Engineer focuses on the design of deep sub-micron CMOS ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) for ultra-low power consumption sensor module applications. The product line includes ultra-low power consumption, compact, high-performance sensors for barometric pressure, magnetic, gas, gyroscopes, and accelerometers.
The role will support the IC components and the sensor modules during the entire product life cycle from product definition through product release to end-of-life, and will also contribute to advanced development by both creating new product families and improving existing ones. The individual must have demonstrated experience in ASIC systems and circuit analysis, design, test, product development, and mass production product releases. As part of a cross-functional product development team, the candidate will support other essential disciplines including marketing and applications, project management, characterization, test engineering, and production.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACTIVITIES INCLUDE
 

• Provide technical leadership, insight, mentoring, and support to the digital design team
• Provide architectural guidance to IC definition and specification
• Design using Verilog/System Verilog  RTL
• Design Verification and Building and Maintaining Design Verification Test Suites (UVM preferred)
• Front end support (Synthesis, Timing closure, DFT)
• AMS Verification
• Test Vector Generation
• Digital Characterization Programs
• Digital Characterization Data Analysis
• Support ATE test vector generation, Silicon Validation.
• Assisting in failure analysis

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
 

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience developing RTL/Digital circuits for ASICs
• Expertise in designing digital circuits, state-machines, serial interfaces, and integrating IP such as SRAM, OTP, Microcontroller/CPU cores, and Verilog RTL, in the context of high-performance mixed-signal ASICs / SoCs.
• Knowledge of design verification techniques
• Familiarity with serial interface standards such as SPI or I2C
• Familiarity with Place and Route tools
• Experience with Cadence or Synopsys tool suite. (Synthesis, Place and Route, STA, CDC, Low power, DFT)
• Software programming ability in high-level languages such as C or Visual Basic as well as scripting languages such as Python

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
 

• Knowledge of Sensors, delta-sigma modulators, decimation/interpolation filters, low-power design, in deep sub-micron technology is highly desired
• Experience with Standard Cell Library development and characterization
• Experience handling test equipment such as oscilloscopes, function generators, DVMs
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment
• Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills
• Experience in working with global design and cross-functional teams
• Leader who can help develop the technical skills of the team

COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS
 

• Critical Thinking: Skilled at finding logical flaws in arguments and plans; identifies problems and solutions that others might miss; provides detailed insight and constructive criticism into problems and complex situations
• Working with Ambiguity: Ability to take a vague concept and turn it into a design specification; Ability to work with limited guidance.
• Displaying Technical Expertise: effectively applies specialized knowledge and skills to perform work tasks; understands and masters the technical skills, knowledge, and tasks associated with his/her job; shares technical expertise with others
• Driving for Results:Aggressively pursues challenging goals and objectives; takes a highly focused, goal-driven approach toward work
• Making Accurate Judgments and Decisions: Bases decisions on a systematic review of relevant facts and information; avoid making assumptions or rushing to judgment; provides clear rationale for decisions

INTERESTED

We are committed to submitting suitable candidates for this vacancy to our client ASAP, for more information contact Lucy Turingan/Kariza R. at PER Recruitment or send your CV at [email protected]