Principal Engineer - Design

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Job Description:

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller, analog, FPGA, connectivity, and power management semiconductors. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs while reducing total system cost, risk, and time to market. The company's solutions serve more than 130,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets. The corporate CAD and ES (Engineering Services) group offers industry leading digital and mixed-signal design implementation of full RTL2GDS spectrum on advanced technology nodes with cutting edge EDA tooling platform.

Job Responsibilities

• To lead technically in ASIC design implementation domain, which may include stages from design architectural understanding till timing signoff for tapeout
• To develop and signoff I.C. design projects RTL2GDS implementation and flow improvement. Responsibilities include (as applicable)
  • Architectural and micro-architectural intent understanding
  • RTL design structure for effective and efficient synthesis implementation
  • Derive timing constraints from design spec, review and validate with respective designer/architect for signoff
  • Design-For-Test (DFT) implementation, covering basic scan insertion, compression, LOC/LOS, RAMBIST all the way to advanced handling for performance/schedule/coverage trade-off
  • Low power design; starting from architectural feedback, vector-driven synthesis/layout optimization and leakage/dynamic power control techniques
  • Provide technical guidance and review for team members in solving complex challenges, with high problem-solving skill and critical thinking capability
  • Creating technical intellectual property such as patents and trade secrets
  • Drive for Best-in-Class design implementation approach/process or new design methodologies benchmarking

• To document I.C. Design implementation and work procedures
  • Capturing design implementation approach, consideration, challenges and solutions employed using corporate template documentation
  • Complete audit and checklist fill-in, review and closure in compliance to corporate Design Control Procedures (DCP)
  • Filing issues, solution details and review confirmation in project ticketing system (PEPS) or CAD ticketing system (JIRA)

• To interface with
  • Project manager, product-development and ATPG team on project related issues
  • CAD/TA on flow methodology

Requirements/Qualifications:

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, with 8-12 years of ASIC I.C. Design working experience
• Cadence Genus or Synopsys DesignCompiler expertise
• Cadence Tempus or Synopsys Primetime expertise

Added advantage

• Exposure to 7nm and below advanced process nodes
• Familiar with System-Verilog foundation and coding
• Strong scripting skills in Perl, TCL, Shell or Python

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

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