ASIC Digital Design Engineer

ASIC Digital Design Engineer: Oversees definition, design, verification, and documentation for ASIC development. Determines architecture design, logic design, and system simulation. Defines module interfaces/formats for simulation. Contributes to the development of multidimensional designs involving the layout of complex integrated circuits. Evaluates all aspects of the process flow from high-level design to synthesis, place and route, and timing and power use. Analyzes equipment to establish operation data, conducts experimental tests, and evaluates results. May also review vendor capability to support development.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Flow down and documentation of customer requirements
• Perform digital design, timing design, and detailed digital simulations
• Develop IC specifications & documentation
  • Requirements Capture & Documentation
    • Translating system-level specs into digital requirements.
    • Creating detailed timing (setup/hold, pixel clocking) and block diagrams. 
    • Creating risk assessments and traceability matrices.
• RTL Front-End Design
  • Behavioral modeling of digital controllers (e.g., pixel readout sequencing, windowing).
  • Finite State Machine and datapath design for ASIC modes.
  • Clock domain crossing and power-aware RTL coding (asynchronous resets, and multi-clock domains).
  • Modular and synthesizable SystemVerilog.
• Synthesis & Optimization
  • Logic synthesis with constraints (timing, area, power).
  • Multi-corner, multi-mode (MCMM) analysis.
  • DFT/ATPG insertion (scan chains, BIST for ASIC testability).
  • Clock/Power optimization for low-power ASICs.
• Perform Back-End Physical Design as needed
  • Floorplanning and power grid design.
  • Place and Route (APR) with congestion management.
  • Timing closure across PVT corners.
  • DRC, LVS, extraction and signoff.
• Perform RTL Verification & Simulation as needed
  • Functional verification with UVM testbenches, coverage driven verification(code/functional/toggle).
  • Assertion based checks for timing critical paths, and co-simulation with analog models (e.g., pixel array interfaces, Verilog-AMS).
• Customer interface and design review presentations
• Coordination with design team, analog design, and full custom IC cell layout
• IC Device Test Support: Provide assistance (as required) to test engineering to perform test verification

Attention to Detail required while performing design, layout, verification and simulations

Collaboration and Teamwork required to coordinate with design team, analog design, and full custom IC cell layout team members

Knowledge of and Continuous Learning in the following Areas:

• Full Custom IC Layout Design and CAD tools
• Imaging Systems and Electro-Optical Components
• Digital design for CMOS technology
• Simulation tools such as SPICE
• Schematic Capture and simulation
• Digital Synthesis and RTL code development, implementation, and verification

Additional Skills Required:

• Analytical Problem-Solving skills required in order to identify the root cause of difficult technical problems as well as analyzing alternate approaches and developing practical solutions to solve technical problems while performing complex IC designs.
• Organization, Planning & Execution required to ensure adherence to detailed digital IC design process and documentation
• Strong Communication Skills and Good Presentation required to support customer presentations. i.e. PDR, CDR
• Innovation: must have the ability to develop new ideas and/or creative designs using innovative methodologies and/or concepts
• Decision Making; Must be self-directing and possess the ability to make decisions based on problem analysis and evaluation of alternatives, risks and consequences

Job Qualifications:

• B.S. in EE or Physics required
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in IC design, circuit topology, digital schematic capture and simulation desired.
• Strong Computer Skills: Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Knowledgeable in ISO 9001 process and procedures
• Advanced skills in IC Design CAD tools
• Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen or PERMANENT Resident