Principal Design Engineer

Role : Principal Design Engineer

Location : Switzerland

About the role :

You must have demonstrated success in digital design & verification / infrastructure development for digital FPGAs / ASICs.

Other key skills include technical / project leadership, documentation, RTL design knowledge, and backend flow and tools knowledge.

The position requires both technical and leadership skills, while working closely with multi-disciplinary groups to drive & design key aspects of ASIC / pwr mgmt.

Candidate will be lead designer, support verification, and be technical focus on one or more device and / or sections. Candidate will also support pre / post-silicon design validation and support Design / ATE / Application & Systems group.

Products working on :

switching regulators, sensors, motor control, display drivers, audio amplifiers and power management ICs for fast-growing portable and non-portable markets such as broadband modems, notebooks, cell phones, telecom, fiber optics, digital camera, automobile and network equipment.

Responsibilities :

• Support & develop the chip / digital level architecture and functional blocks
• Provide technical documentation with specifications, block diagrams, and requirements to stakeholders.
• Collaborate & work with departments / stakeholders including for architectures, requirements, and tradeoffs, including Digital / Analog Design, Application / Test Engineering, & Reliability / Operations to resolve design, application, or test issues.
• Develop system and chip level simulation verification techniques and methodology.
• Digital Design (RTL design) : ASIC or FPGA from concept to implementation
• Digital Verification : Development test plans, test benches and automated test cases
• Knowledge and / or responsibility in synthesis, timing closure, and formal verification.
• Create scripting to support design and verification automation
• Estimate and manage time / tasks completion to target schedule

Qualifications :

• PhD / BS / MS in Electrical Engineering with emphasis in Digital Design / VLSI coursework.
• 10+ years experience in design plus verification of ASIC or FPGA
• Broad & Strong knowledge of ASIC development process and digital design techniques.
• Proficient in standard DV languages (Verilog, SystemVerilog, UVM) and automated regression testcase development, and reporting / tracking coverage metrics.
• Experience with programming, scripting and automation languages(C / C++, shell, Perl, TCL, Python, etc).
• Solid knowledge and experience working through the entire Digital Design Flow : Specification definition, RTL Verification, Synthesis, P&R, Gate-Level Verification, Power Estimation, ATPG Generation and Simulation, AMS Sims, etc.
• Excellent Knowledge & Use of industry standard ASIC tools / flow for daily work : Digital Simulators, synthesis tools, DFT, LEC, STA, etc.
• Good written / verbal communication skills and strong team work / collaboration.

Experience with the following is highly desired :

• Knowledge of power management architectures / applications
• I2C, I3C, SPI, USB, PMBUS, I2S, CANOpen, EtherCAT
• GITLab or equiv version control
• Embedded MCU(ARM) designs and / or firmware development
• Previous experience in signal processing and sensors

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