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 SystemVerilog, 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.

Applicants selected for this position will be required to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.