Staff Engineer, Digital Design Engineering (AI/ML)

Key Responsibilities

• Apply AI/ML methodologies to improve synthesis results, timing closure, power estimation, and design space exploration
• Develop and implement digital subsystems for mixed-signal ICs, including control logic, digital interfaces, and on-chip processing blocks
• Execute RTL design, coding, and optimization in Verilog/SystemVerilog for performance, area, and power targets
• Perform synthesis with timing and placement constraints (Genus), static timing analysis and power analysis (Tempus), and logical equivalence checking (Conformal)
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, contributing technical analysis on timing, area, power, and testability trade-offs
• Collaborate with analog design teams to implement and integrate digital-analog interfaces and control architectures

Required Skills And Experience

• MSEE or MSCE with 7+ years of digital IC design experience, or PhD with 5+ years (BSEE/BSCE with equivalent depth considered)
• Strong RTL design skills in Verilog/SystemVerilog with experience delivering complex digital subsystems
• Demonstrated ability to deliver digital designs through tape-out, silicon validation, and production release
• Solid scripting skills (Python, Tcl, shell) with experience applying AI/ML techniques to enhance productivity
• Knowledge of synthesis, static timing analysis, DFT (scan, ATPG, BIST), and clock domain crossing methodologies
• Proficiency with Cadence digital design tools: Genus, Innovus, Tempus, Conformal
• Excellent presentation, technical writing, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Curiosity and initiative to explore AI/ML techniques and emerging tools that can transform design workflows, with an enthusiasm for discovering more effective ways of working
• Working knowledge of place-and-route (Innovus), floorplanning, and physical-aware design techniques
• Experience with low-power design techniques including multi-voltage domains, power gating, and UPF
• Familiarity with digital interfaces (I2C, SPI, UART) and mixed-signal SoC integration
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities