RTL Design Engineer

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The Role

As a member of the Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, you will help bring to life cutting-edge designs. As a member of the front-end design team, you will work closely with the architecture, IP design, Physical Design teams, and product engineers to achieve first pass silicon success.

The Person

You have a passion for modern, complex processor architecture, RTL coding, and digital design in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.

Key Responsibilities

Own the design and implementation of blocks to meet functional, timing, area and power requirements. Guide and review verification for these blocks. Design and implement logic functions that enable efficient test and debug. Implement automation to increase design team efficiency.

Preferred Experience

Strong front-end RTL engineering background. Strong communication skills, able to summarize complex problems for executives as well as drill down to details with architects and engineers. Strong analytic and problem solving skills including the ability to analyze current behavior, identify potential areas for improvement, and design of experiments. Experience with Arm architecture and APB, AXI, CHI protocols. Experience with design reuse, including RTL, constraints, and waivers. Experience with SoC level design integration. Experience with automation using scripting techniques such as PERL, Python, or Tcl. Experience with timing constraints and timing exceptions. Experience running standard quality checks such as LINT and CDC. Experience designing with multiple power domains including writing UPF. Must be a self-starter and self-motivated.

Academic Credentials

Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering.

Location: San Jose, CA