Principal Engineer - Analog Design Flow Architect

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Job Description:

Work closely with internal Microchip teams such as Engineering Services, BU Design teams, and Operations, to ensure Microchip’s analog and mixed signal design flows and tools are robust and reliable.

Work closely with stakeholders, EDA vendors, and consultants as needed to develop and deploy advanced methodologies to analog and mixed signal design flows to improve design quality and reduce design cycle time.
Provide front line support for Microchip staff in the use of these tools and flows.
Develop, test, and release scripts and tools as specified to aid in analog or mixed signal design and layout
Such other comparable duties as may be required by Microchip management

Requirements/Qualifications:

Minimum 8.5+ years experience in an analog/MS design or CAD engineering role
Experience with EDA tools for analog IC design and simulation is required

• Design verification tools such as Virtuoso ADE, Solido SDE or other design environments
• Analog simulation tools such as spectre, hspice, and fast-spice simulators and their applications
• Virtuoso layout and post layout extraction simulation flows

Knowledge of PDK’s and their interaction with the simulation environment.

Knowledge of digital and mixed signal simulation and verification tools and techniques is required

• regression management tools and flows
• debug tools and flows

Knowledge of programming in a scripting language (e.g. Cadence Skill, shell, Tcl, Perl, python) is required.

Experience with digital implementation flow would be an asset.

Experience with distributed and remote computing environments and their maintenance would be an asset (LSF, RTDA. Sungrid)
Must be familiar with linux OS
Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills are required
Ability and willingness to learn new skills and self-starter who can produce in a remote managed setting

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