Engineer

Job title: ASIC Engineer

Location: San Diego CA

Duration: 6+ months

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

" Applies ASIC knowledge and experience to define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power products.

" Creates architectures, circuit specifications, logic designs, and/or system simulations based on system-level requirements.

" Collaborates across teams (e.g., software architecture, hardware architecture) to develop and execute an implementation strategy that meets system requirements and customer needs.

" Evaluates all aspects of process flow from high-level design to synthesis, place and route, timing and power use, and verification or similarly for custom circuit design/layout flow.

" Utilizes tools/applications (e.g., RTL to GDS Flow, Virtuoso) to execute and enable architecture and design of an individual block/SoC or IC Package.

" Writes detailed technical documentation for EDA/IP/ASIC projects.

" Work with subsystem and SOC Architects to understand the concepts and high-level system requirements.

" Develop detailed Test and Coverage plans based on the Architecture and Micro-architecture.

" Develop Verification Methodology, ensuring scalability and portability across environments.

" Develop Verification environment, including all the respective components such as Stimulus, Checkers, Monitors Assertions, and Coverpoints.

" Develop Verification Plans and Testbenches for your functional domain.

" Execute Verification Plans, including Design Bring-up, DV environment Bring-up, Regressions enabling all features under your care, and Debug of the test failures.

" Track and report DV progress using a variety of metrics, including Bugs and Coverage

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience

-OR-

Masters Degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience