R&D IC Design Engineer

About the role

This opening is for working on chips that enable Physical Layer Products for High Speed Optical Communication.

Responsibilities

• Architect block level design specifications from the marketing requirements and/or system requirements
• Prepare detailed design document, timing constraint file
• RTL coding, Lint checks, CDC, Synthesis, Equivalency checking, STA, RTL/gate level simulations & silicon debug
• Scripting for various IC design tasks such as STA, equivalency checks, test bench, simulations, synthesis, etc.
• Prepare block level resource requirements & development schedule
• Generate verification & test plans for design validation
• Perform design tradeoff analysis – leakage, dynamic power, die size, schedule, resource, priority, etc.
• Silicon bring up and validation, ATE program bring up

Requirements

• B.S degree in EE or Computer Engineering. Minimum of 8 years of work experience with direct related technical skill
• M.S degree/Ph.D in EE or Computer Engineering with 6 years of work experience
• Good knowledge of ARM subsystem
• Good knowledge of high speed digital circuit design
• Good knowledge of digital upsampling/downsampling
• Good knowledge of 10G/100G/200G/400G/800G Ethernet and OTN network
• Good knowledge on FEC (Forward Error Correction) design
• Good knowledge of digital signal processing and error correction code is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills as well as hands-on lab debugging experiences
• Good knowledge of RTL simulation and synthesis
• In-depth knowledge for design for low power and design for test and design for manufacturing
• Good Knowledge in languages relevant to the ASIC development process including Verilog, VHDL, Unix/Perl Scripting or Python, and C
• Self-motivated, excellent communication skills and ability to excel in a team environment
• Good organization skills, able to follow through & bring issue to closure
• Understand the entire IC development flow & procedure including silicon volume production qualification requirements & procedures
• Enthusiastic & enjoy IC development works
• Be able to work with teams at remote locations with different time zone

Compensation and benefits

• Eligible for a discretionary annual bonus
• Competitive new hire equity grant and annual equity awards
• Medical, dental and vision plans
• 401(K) participation including company matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time
• Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence as applicable by law