Job description
Our client is looking for a Senior ASIC Engineer with extensive telecoms/semiconductor industry experience to contribute to the development of their hardware solutions. This is a hands-on role, which will play an important part in the organisation's product portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply specialised skills and expertise to enable team to make the successful and timely delivery of projects
- Provide mentoring to aid the development of junior colleagues
- Contribute to the optimisation, synthesis and characterisation of ASIC solutions
- Support customers in the validation, synthesis and integration of ASIC solutions
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Essential:
- Optimisation, synthesis, characterisation, validation and integration of ASIC solutions (at 16 nm or below)
- Extensive industry experience in relevant role
- Developing Python and TCL scripts for synthesis, static timing closure and formal verification
- Experience of power estimation tools and power-aware physical design flow
- Proficiency in EDA tools (Synopsys and/or Cadence) and process libraries
- Adept at providing technical support, working with customers during the integration phase of their projects
- Version control and peer review (e.g. Git)
- Documentation (e.g. Confluence)
- Time management (e.g. Jira)
Desirable:
- Porting FPGA designs to ASIC targets
- ASIC synthesis and back-end processes
- Back-end flow including floorplanning, LVS/DRC, UPF
- DFT techniques and tools including MEMBIST
- Automation (e.g. Jenkins)
- Communications signal processing algorithms (ideally error correction, equalisation, channel estimation, beamforming or another baseband component)
- Mobile communications systems
- Telecoms and/or semiconductor industry knowledge
