Digital Design Engineer

Posted on January 20, 2024 · Posted in Job

Location : North America / India

 The Digital Design Engineer will contribute to the design, implementation, and verification of the world’s most energy-efficient, general-purpose processor. This position is a unique opportunity to realize our product, work as a digital hardware designer with a highly interdisciplinary team, and help shape the future technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and verify features from specification through synthesis
  • Implement product features at the RTL-level targeting silicon implementation
  • Implement product features at the RTL-level targeting FPGA emulation for verification
  • Build unit testbench infrastructure to verify implemented features
  • Design of memory systems and digital integration of memory macros, including SRAM, MRAM, and others
  • Interface design components with external/vendor-provided IP
  • Use industrial-strength digital design tools from RTL simulation through synthesis, which may include Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor/Siemens EDA, and ANSYS as necessary
  • Provide comprehensive feature and integration documentation
  • Interact with physical design and digital verification team for pre-silicon verification
  • Work with physical design team to resolve RTL-level issues leading to DRC violations
  • Work with compiler and embedded software teams to develop, document, and implement features that span across the software-hardware boundary, including dataflow ISA

Required Qualifications & Experience Requirements

  • 2+ years of digital design experience with substantial experience designing for tape-out
  • Experience running a digital design flow using industry-strength digital design and EDA tools
  • Experience with designing and implementing features in RTL
  • Experience integrating digital IP with RTL-level implementations
  • Experience with pre-silicon verification
  • Experience with continuous integration and testing of digital designs
  • Experience with version control and scripting languages (Python preferred)
  • Experience with memory compiler toolchains
  • Strong attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and good communication skills
  • Good problem solving skills

Desired Qualifications & Experience Requirements

  • Experience designing compilers
  • Knowledge of computer architecture
  • Knowledge of physical design and ASIC implementation
  • Experience with power and energy modeling (using tools like PowerArtist, Joules, etc.)