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We are seeking a Staff Physical Digital Design Engineer to join our team of Design Engineers at one of our European offices.
This role requires on-site presence; remote options are not available.
The candidate will oversee all aspects of physical design and implementation, contributing to the establishment of physical design methodologies and workflow automation.
As a key member of the design development team, you will focus on digital design implementation and verification of mixed-signal ICs using standard EDA tools.
Essential Functions: Lead physical design, development, and verification of digital/mixed-signal ICs.
Drive chip and block floorplan/implementation, power and clock distribution, chip assembly, Place & Route (P&R), Static Timing Analysis (STA), and Layout vs. Schematic (LVS)/Design Rule Check (DRC) closure.
Collaborate closely with digital/analog design teams for physical implementation and integration of custom analog blocks/interfaces/IPs.
Contribute to building an automated RTL-to-PNR environment using high-level languages and DevOps-like services.
Qualifications: Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
Preferred 7+ years of experience in Physical Digital Design.
Preferred 2+ years of experience in ASIC design, verification, or related work.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
Ability to work independently, follow design specifications, and deliver tasks to meet project milestones with high quality.
Solid understanding of ASIC development processes and digital design techniques.
Proficiency in programming, scripting, and automation languages such as Perl, TCL, and Unix.
Technical expertise in: Verilog/System Verilog coding.
Synthesis, Logical Equivalence Checking (LEC), Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), Design for Testability (DFT), RC Extraction, and STA closure across multiple process corners.
Multipower domain, signal integrity, and power/IR drop analysis.
Linting and Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) requirements.
Functional and timing ECO methodologies, both manual and tool-driven.
Physical Design Verification methodologies to debug LVS/DRC issues at chip/block level.
Proficiency with industry-standard physical design tools, preferably Cadence or Synopsys.
Experience in SOC design including microcontroller (uC) design (ARM/RISCV).
Experience with digital on top designs using both bottom-up and top-down flows.
Hierarchical STA for chip top designs and familiarity with advanced nodes below 16nm, FinFET.
Desired experience includes Statistical STA, AOCV, Signal Integrity (SI), noise analysis, knowledge of power management applications, and familiarity with interfaces such as I2C, SPI, USB, PMBUS.
Advanced knowledge of DFT techniques including LBIST, Delay Fault, SCAN Compression.
Familiarity with object-oriented programming languages (Python, Java, etc.
), version control systems (VCS like Git, SVN), and DevOps practices including Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).
This role can be based at any of the following office locations: Barcelona, Spain Enschede/Nijmegen, Netherlands Porto/Lisbon, Portugal #J-18808-Ljbffr