Unsupervised Hierarchical Execution: Autonomously design, implement, and verify layouts scaling seamlessly from unit cells and blocks up to complex MACRO, PHY, and full top-level CHIP integrations.
Rigorous Quality & Waiver Control: Independently run advanced physical verification flows, rigorously double-checking results, authorizing and documenting confirmed error waivers, and generating comprehensive documentation.
Architectural Ownership: Maintain and actively enhance the mastery of assigned architectures, utilizing deep Design Rule Manual (DRM) knowledge across various process nodes.
BKM Advancement: Apply mastery of layout guidelines across diverse process technologies to deliver high-quality layouts on time, while continuously optimizing and improving "Best-Known Methods" (BKMs).
Strategic Optimization: Independently develop, prototype, and implement test cases to uncover optimal technical solutions in accelerated timeframes, while driving overall project improvement plans.
Cross-Functional Management: Manage and lead engineering tasks, specialized working groups, or full scale projects both within the current group and across other organizational teams.
Lifecycle Efficiency: Drive the end-to-end task pipeline, executing precise task assessments, strategic resource delegation, real-time tracking, and final quality review/submission.
Challenging the Status Quo: Proactively question and propose structural developments for existing design flows, engineering documentation, and methodologies to safeguard long-term operational success.
Post-Mortem & Preventative Action: Initiate project post-mortems, tracking action items to close-out while engineering robust countermeasures to continuously elevate future project delivery.
- Comprehensive Mentorship: Propose, design, deliver, and evolve both technical training curriculum (coaching/mentoring) and soft skills/personal development programs for emerging leaders and team optimization.
Meta Competencies
Uncompromising Technical Independence: The proven ability to take a design from initial concept to full tape-out verification sign-off without needing external engineering supervision.
Systemic Innovation (BKM Champion): A natural orientation toward looking at standard engineering workflows and actively finding ways to optimize, automate, or rewrite them for faster turnaround times.
Constructive Change Agency: The confidence and analytical weight required to challenge legacy documentation and status-quo frameworks across different business groups to build better long-term scalability.
Dual-Engine Leadership: Equal parts technical visionary (coaching engineering logic and architecture) and people strategist (cultivating soft skills, building client relationships, and developing human capital).
Requirements:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with a specialization in Integrated Circuit (IC) design.
8–10 years of relevant, hands-on experience in analog/mixed-signal or digital IC layout design and full-chip physical verification
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field specializing in IC design
- 8-10 years hands-on experience in analog/mixed-signal or digital IC layout design and full-chip physical verification
- Deep expertise in Design Rule Manual (DRM) knowledge across process nodes
- Proven ability to execute unsupervised layout work from cell/block to PHY/MACRO and full top-level chip integration
- Experience running advanced physical verification sign-off flows, authoring waivers, and producing documentation
- Demonstrated capability to take designs from concept to tape-out independently
- Experience leading cross-functional engineering tasks, managing projects, mentoring and training engineers
- Track record of developing and improving Best-Known Methods (BKMs) and layout workflows
What We Do
Established in 2009, Xinyx emerged after Intel concluded its operations in the Philippines. Our inception marked the pioneering of the IC Design services industry in the country. Starting as a modest IC design house catering to fabless startups, we have evolved into a top-tier turnkey IC Design solutions company, delivering cutting-edge technology to global semiconductor companies. 15 Years in the Industry With a legacy that spans over a decade, our experience reflects a deep understanding of the dynamic landscape of IC design. We have witnessed and embraced the evolution of technology, consistently adapting to deliver cutting-edge solutions. One of the Biggest IC Design Houses Globally As a global player, we take pride in being one of the largest IC design houses, and right here, we have 400 engineers at your service. Our expansive reach allows us to serve clients worldwide, providing unparalleled expertise and solutions that meet the highest industry standards.
