Digital Design Engineer

Job Title:Digital Design Engineer
Location: US-TX-Remote
Salary: 150k-170k
Overview:
The Digital Integrated Circuit (IC) Design Engineer is primarily responsible for IC development from chip architecture definition through release to production, and may possibly support Single Board Computer FPGA design and validation. This individual demonstrates aptitude and hands-on capability to design complex digital blocks, with knowledge/experience across the complete ASIC/SoC design flow. The Digital IC Design Engineer will gain experience with radiation-hardened design and analog/mixed-signal design. The Digital IC Design Engineer should be experienced in digital verification, Design-For-Test techniques, Standard Cell Library design methods, and the latest EDA tools.
The individual will apply IC design EDA tools to the design task, stay current in the latest design methodologies and maintain expertise in the latest EDA tools. The Digital IC Design Engineer will design and verify logic circuits, systems, and digital algorithms to meet product requirements. The individual will determine the proper methods and procedures for the digital system development, determine the best method for verifying the digital system before the IC design is committed to silicon, and provide validation and debug support for post-silicon activities.
Additional duties include evaluation of design requirements, determining design methodologies, formulating estimates of effort/cost for new business proposals, and participation in continuous improvements to internal design methodologies.
The individual will work as part of a collaborative design-team using prudent design-management techniques including EDA tool-scripting, version-control and technical documentation, while participating in project-planning and progress-tracking.
Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership for new Digital and Mixed-signal ASIC programs.
• Collaborate with external and internal customers to define ASIC solution architectures.
• Reviewing and editing target specifications (FRONTGRADE or External Customers) and translating them into design results.
• Implement Digital Designs using RTL & Logic Synthesis methods (Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog).
• Develop architectures and specifications for complex design blocks.
• Add DFT (Design for Test) logic to the design to efficiently implement efficient testing of the design for manufacturing.
• Interface with ASIC customers and FRONTGRADE internal Place & Route Engineers to ensure the ASIC customer designs are correctly implemented in silicon.
• Develop verification plans, simulation environments, coverage metrics, and perform design verification for digital blocks and systems.
• Use modern verification methods to verify digital blocks and systems, such as directed/constrained random, assertions, UVM, code coverage.
• Use modern Static Timing Analysis and Formal Verification tools to verify the correctness of digital gate level implementations.
• Use the ElectroMigration/IR drop analysis tools/results to address its impacts with the design.
• Partner with internal and external customers to develop technical solutions that enable new missions.
• Create and execute mixed-signal modeling and simulation.
• Support and lead project planning and Agile project development
• Support and lead proposal estimation and technical proposal write-ups for new program pursuits.
• Basis of Estimate cost build-up and estimation for new program pursuits and IRAD programs

• Bachelor's degree with 13 years of experience implementing ASIC or FPGA designs using Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL.
• This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by US export laws. In order to be eligible for this position, you must be a US person under US export laws or, eligible for approval for a U.S. Government export license. A US Person includes a US citizen, lawful Permanent Resident, refugee or asylee.

• BSEE, BSCE, or equivalent preferred.
• If combined with Master's degree in Engineering, 11 years of experience implementing ASIC or FPGA designs using Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL will suffice.
• Strong aptitude to learn and apply best practices and techniques using EDA tools.
• Able to decompose a complex set of product requirements into an execution plan.
• Experience with computer architectures, computer systems and signal integrity are a plus.
• Exposure to and aptitude to learn Unix platforms, command-shells & utilities, Tcl scripting, and modern EDA Tools (Synopsys, Siemens/MentorGraphics, Cadence, modern FPGA design-suites).

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