Sr. Custom Circuit Design Engineer

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality.

Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Development: Development of high-speed and low-power Custom Circuit Designer (ex. Memory, FPGA Fabric Designer). These designs to be implemented in advanced semiconductor technologies, including FinFET and nanometer CMOS.
• Simulation and Verification: Work involves schematic capture, SPICE simulations, and margin and functional verification of major circuit blocks.
• Layout Planning: Oversee layout planning and ensure tight pitch-matched memory layout and area optimized custom layout.
• Collaboration: Work closely with architecture and design teams to define PPA (Performance, Power, Area) and yield targets.
• Full Design Flow: Manage the full design flow, including circuit design, physical implementation, compiler usage, characterization, timing, and model generation.
• Innovation: Bring innovative and revolutionary ideas to life in our products, influencing various parts of our FPGA designs.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field. A Master’s is preferred.
• Experience: Over 5 years of experience in memory and custom circuit design, verification, validation, and integration.
• Technical Skills:
  • Strong knowledge of custom memory design, high speed, low power as well as custom circuit design
  • Expertise in high-performance and low-power design techniques.
  • Familiarity with variation-aware design in advanced semiconductor technologies.
• Soft Skills: Excellent problem-solving skills, strong communication abilities, and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with large density memory cell design for high yield
• Knowledge of semiconductor device fundamentals
• Experience in custom circuit design

Additional Information:

This position requires a successful background and reference checks and satisfactory proof of your right to work in:

Lattice recognizes that employees are its greatest asset and the driving force behind success in a highly competitive, global industry.  Lattice continually strives to provide a comprehensive compensation and benefits program to attract, retain, motivate, reward and celebrate the highest caliber employees in the industry. 

Lattice is an international, service-driven developer of innovative low cost, low power programmable design solutions.  Our global workforce, some 1,000 strong, shares a total commitment to customer success and an unbending will to win.  For more information about how our FPGA, CPLD and programmable power management  devices help our customers unlock their innovation, visit www.latticesemi.com.  You can also follow us via Twitter, Facebook, or RSS. At Lattice, we value the diversity of individuals, ideas, perspectives, insights and values, and what they bring to the workplace.  Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.