Digital Design Engineer
Cirrus Logic · Chandler, AZ · 1 mo ago
HybridFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design and implement digital subsystems and IP blocks for mixed-signal ICs from architecture through tape-out.
- Develop RTL designs using Verilog and support integration into larger SoC environments.
- Design and verify DSP, control, and data-path logic, including calibration and monitoring state machines.
- Perform functional verification, integration verification, and support UVM-based verification teams.
- Contribute to behavioral and system modeling of digital and mixed-signal systems.
- Support post-silicon validation, characterization, and production test, including lab bring-up and silicon debug.
- Collaborate across disciplines to ensure correct interaction between digital logic and analog circuitry.
- Participate in design reviews, tape-out readiness, and root-cause analysis for silicon or system issues.
Requirements
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Bachelor’s with 2+ years of relevant digital IC design experience.
- Master’s with 0+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong working knowledge of Verilog RTL design.
- Solid understanding of the digital design flow, including:
- Microarchitecture and RTL development.
- Clock and reset domain crossing.
- Functional verification.
- Timing constraints and synthesis.
- Experience designing and verifying complex state machines and control logic.
- Familiarity with CMOS VLSI design fundamentals.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a team-based, fast-paced development environment.
Qualifications
- Expertise or strong background in Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
- Experience implementing FIR and IIR filters and other signal-processing algorithms.
- Familiarity with ARM-based SoCs, microprocessor subsystems, buses, and peripherals.
- Experience with mixed-signal IC development, including interaction between digital and analog circuitry.
- Exposure to low-power and high-performance ASIC design techniques.
- Experience with back-end flows, including synthesis, place & route, and timing analysis.
- Experience generating test vectors and supporting production or probe test environments.
- Proficiency with MATLAB, Simulink, or similar tools for modeling, algorithm development, and validation.
- Strong lab and silicon validation skills, including silicon debug and characterization.