Overview
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Job Details
Security clearance: Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
Role:
A Senior ASIC Hardware Engineer specifies, designs, verifies, tests, and documents Application-Specific Integrated Circuits.
The engineer develops the architecture, designs circuits and/or HDL, performs simulations, performs physical layout, verifies and tests designs.
Job Description:
Duties/Responsibilities
Design and simulate circuits at transistor-level to implement architecture and requirement specifications
Contribute to system-level design
Optimize hardware designs for performance, power, and cost
Evaluate the hardware feasibility of complex algorithms and requirements
Independently contribute to complex chip architectures and designs
Independently drive solutions to complex problems develop requirements, propose ways forward when customer requirements are unclear or incomplete, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements
Contribute to business development and proposal activities
Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers
Perform or guide physical layout, including floor-planning, and simulate circuits using extracted parasitics.
Perform other duties as assigned
Skills/Abilities
Proficiency in integrated circuit design
Understanding of integrated circuits, semiconductors, and general computer architecture
Ability to write detailed design specifications
Ability to manage small technical teams
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent mathematical skills
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
Excellent time management skills with the proven ability to meet deadlines
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to prioritize tasks
Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals
Education
Requires a bachelor s degree in Engineering, or related field. Masters degree preferred.
Experience
Requires 5-7 years of experience with a bachelor s degree, or 3-5 years of experience with a master s degree, or 0-2 years of experience with a PhD in ASIC Hardware Engineering or related.
Additional Job Description:
Applicants should possess solid skills in front-end digital systems design with experience in design flows from Cadence or Synopsys.
Be fluent in System Verilog, Verilog or VHDL and familiar with LINT, simulation and synthesis.
Familiarity with architectures for secure systems design, e.g., cryptographic encoders / decoders or tagged processor architectures is a plus.
Demonstrated experience with successful tape-outs at advanced nodes is desired. Experience leading and managing design teams is also desired.