Sr. Staff Silicon Design Engineer

Overview:

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Responsibilities: SR. STAFF SILICON DESIGN ENGINEER

THE ROLE:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the innovative and multi-award winning team that has developed the RF data converter sub-system, including direct-RF digital signal processing, around which Xilinx Zync® Ultrascale+™ RFSoC is built. As part of the Analog and Digital-RF design group you will be working on leading-edge digital communications developments in advanced mixed-signal environment using the latest 7nm and 16nm FinFET CMOS processes.

The role requires an experienced digital design engineer to work on all aspects of the front-end digital design flow including architecture specification and RTL design and optimisation, as well as some verification and synthesis. This will involve extensive interactions with the analog design team, digital verification team, synthesis and place-and-route team. The successful candidate will also be expected to perform a technical leadership role within the team and to promote best design practice within the team.

THE PERSON:

A successful candidate will work with senior silicon design engineers. The candidate will be highly accurate and detail-oriented, possessing good communication and problem-solving skills.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:* Expert front-end design experience in a modern IC / ASIC design environment

Experience in leading digital IC design teams

Extensive experience of tools and design flows including RTL design and verification, CDC checking, linting, DFx, power estimation and design for low power

Expert knowledge of SystemVerilog and logic design concepts

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Excellent problem solving skills

Ability to work well as part of a collaborative multi-site interdisciplinary team

Awareness of physical design flows including synthesis, STA, P\&R

Good awareness of physical implementation constraints on design and design optimization

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:* Experience in high speed wireless communications

Strong knowledge of DSP fundamentals and extensive experience in implementing DSP in ASIC hardware

Experience of Matlab / Octave algorithm development and architecture modelling

Experience of power management techniques / UPF

Experience of designing on the analog/digital boundary

Knowledge of modern digital verification techniques such as UVM

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:* Minimum education level / experience: BS + 8 years, MS + 7 years, PhD + 5 years

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Qualifications:

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