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Develop digital IP for sensing IC products from architecture through release. Responsibilities include RTL design, verification, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, DFT, ATPG, scan testing, and prototype characterization. The role collaborates with system, analog, physical design, test, and product engineering teams; translates specifications into requirements; evaluates architecture tradeoffs; supports layout; maintains digital flows; and coordinates product releases. The first year includes TI’s Career Accelerator Program and structured technical training.

Validates converted mechanical and electrical CAD models against source drawings, checking model integrity, GD&T, annotations, wiring, BOMs, revisions, and PLM alignment. Produces validation and deviation reports, coordinates reviews with design, manufacturing, and quality teams, and confirms corrective actions before release. Requires strong CAD quality, model-based inspection, and configuration-control experience, with proficiency in Creo or Zuken E3.series and U.S. citizenship.

Drives CPU performance verification methodology, circuit and timing quality signoff, process-node evaluation, frequency target recommendations, and performance, power, and area tradeoffs. Collaborates with RTL, circuit, and design teams to meet timing targets. Owns pre-to-post-silicon verification correlation and debugs circuit marginality. Requires advanced CPU circuit or backend design experience, circuit design and STA expertise, and strong execution and technical ownership.

Design and optimize custom SRAM circuits for NVIDIA AI and processor chips, balancing performance, area, and power. Supervise mask layout designers, verify functionality and electrical robustness, and improve automation, data collection, and analysis flows. The role requires SRAM and memory design expertise, scripting with Perl and Python, and collaboration with architecture and design teams. Familiarity with Cadence Virtuoso, SPICE simulation, waveform analysis, static timing, EM/IR analysis, and formal verification is advantageous.

Own and architect physical design implementation and signoff methodologies across Altera’s product portfolio. Lead place-and-route, EMIR, timing, and power signoff flows; establish quality gates and scalable standards; deploy advanced-node technologies; and introduce AI/ML-driven optimization, prediction, automation, and debugging. Serve as the technical authority for tapeout readiness, resolve complex closure issues, collaborate with EDA vendors and technology teams, and mentor physical design and CAD engineers.

Supports mechanical design, documentation, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution. Creates SolidWorks drawings, bills of materials, and design recommendations while analyzing structural loads, materials, durability, manufacturability, cost, and safety. Collaborates with engineering technicians to build and test prototypes and validate design changes.

Lead design and development of high-speed digital circuit card assemblies and backplanes. Support integration, test, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and transition-to-production. Produce technical documentation, drive design/test improvements, interface with customers and suppliers, and mentor junior engineers.

Design and support complex high-speed digital circuit card assemblies and backplanes. Lead integration, test, troubleshooting, and transition-to-production activities. Interface with engineering, quality, operations, customers, and suppliers to drive root-cause resolution. Create and review technical documentation, improve product/test methodologies to increase yield, and mentor junior engineers.

Verify ASIC inference accelerator designs at block and SoC levels using advanced methodologies, random stimulus, functional coverage, assertions, and UVM. Develop verification infrastructure, debug designs, optimize automated flows, and collaborate with architects, designers, and pre- and post-silicon teams. Apply knowledge of ASIC design flow, power verification, DFT, netlist verification, and machine learning techniques to improve verification processes.

Design and industrialize automated production machines for automotive customers: develop machine concepts, create electrical panel prints, wiring and power distribution diagrams, BOMs; coordinate with machine builders through quoting, fabrication, debug, and site installation; support customer buyoff and production readiness; opportunity to develop machine code and robot programming.

Design and develop high-performance PLL and clock-generation circuits for RF transceivers, SerDes, and high-speed I/O applications. Responsibilities include PLL building-block design, system modeling, noise and jitter analysis, transistor-level verification, silicon correlation, mixed-signal calibration logic, critical layout guidance, and laboratory characterization of silicon prototypes.

Designs, develops, tests, validates, integrates, and maintains mission-critical workflow and data integration systems. Builds digital-thread solutions, custom software tools, and analytics dashboards while collaborating with program leadership and distributed teams. Requires advanced Jira and Confluence development, scripting, systems engineering tool experience, and familiarity with change management. Principal-level candidates additionally need experience with MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, and Ethernet protocols. The role operates in an Agile environment and requires an active Secret clearance.

Designs and owns automated test equipment hardware and software for Blue Ring spacecraft and payloads. Develops LabVIEW-based command and control systems, supports spacecraft integration and production testing, troubleshoots real-time test anomalies, and ensures systems meet operational requirements. Collaborates with avionics teams, customers, and test organizations throughout manufacturing integration, hardware validation, verification, payload integration, and launch preparation.

Designs active phased-array antennas and related RF hardware from concept and requirements definition through simulation, optimization, PCB fabrication, testing, qualification, and in-orbit support. The role involves RF front-ends, beamformers, and power dividers, along with customer and executive design reviews and proposal writing. Requires advanced electromagnetic simulation, EDA, laboratory testing, communication, and aerospace hardware experience.

The Senior/Staff Design Verification Engineer will be responsible for design verification in coherent interconnects. Specific responsibilities are not detailed, but expertise in this area is expected.

Design and analyze robotic mechanisms and structures using NX CAD, create release-ready drawings, and support prototype manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing. The intern will fabricate fixtures, write test plans, troubleshoot mechanical issues, document design changes, and improve hardware reliability in a hands-on robotics development environment.

Develop hardware and software functional and performance models for architecture exploration, virtual hardware platforms, and IP development. Collaborate with hardware and software architects to validate future products, improve architectures, and create application- and driver-level software. Maintain modeling frameworks, support digital design and verification activities, and mentor junior engineers.

Leads engineering design delivery for pharmaceutical capital projects, coordinating design firms, project managers, technical resources, standards, schedules, budgets, governance, verification, and issue resolution. Ensures designs meet project intent, regulatory requirements, quality, safety, and value objectives. Supports design reviews, vendor selection, earned-value tracking, invoice review, value engineering, and process improvement. The role requires extensive pharmaceutical or API manufacturing and engineering experience, with approximately 25% domestic and international travel.

Own spacecraft power units from requirements through design, supplier management, verification, and acceptance. Design power electronics boards involving switching, protection, current limiting, conversion, interfaces, and fault handling. Perform part selection, schematic capture, worst-case and derating analysis, board bring-up, testing, and debugging. Manage supplier specifications and design reviews, support spacecraft electrical integration, and contribute to power budgets, grounding, EMI/EMC, and system architecture trades for a 15-year GEO mission.

Responsible for thermal, structural, dynamic, and durability analysis of turbomachinery products, guiding design decisions, troubleshooting system interactions, and collaborating with teams on engine and vehicle programs.

Designs, develops, tests, and debugs analog and digital electronic circuits and systems for anti-submarine warfare receiver technology. Responsibilities include circuit design, component selection, schematic capture, PCB constraints, design reviews, DFMEA, reliability estimation, technical documentation, laboratory testing, project support, and mentoring junior engineers. Requires collaboration across design, production, verification, and customer validation activities, with some travel possible.

Design and analyze digital and analog circuits for memory products. Lead layout (floor-planning, placement, routing), perform parasitic modeling, SPICE/Verilog simulation, design validation, reticle experiments and tape-out revisions. Collaborate with test, process integration, product engineering, and cross-functional teams to ensure manufacturability, reliability, cost, and time-to-market.

Designs and leads deployment of resilient enterprise network solutions across data centers, cloud, WAN, SD-WAN, LAN, wireless, voice, security, and application delivery environments. Translates business, security, compliance, and operational requirements into scalable designs and implementation plans. Performs complex troubleshooting, automation, observability, governance, documentation, and operational handoffs. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, coordinates delivery teams, manages concurrent projects, and partners with architecture, security, vendors, managed services, and business stakeholders.

Designs high-speed Ethernet switching hardware from concept through production. Responsibilities include specifications, component selection, schematics, PCB architecture, signal and power integrity, FPGA development, prototype bring-up, debugging, manufacturing coordination, DFM, validation, and contract manufacturer training. The role also guides engineers and mentors junior team members while collaborating with software, mechanical, thermal, test, manufacturing, and product teams.

Designs high-speed ASIC blocks for 10Gbps–400Gbps communication systems. Responsibilities include architecture, RTL/HDL coding, timing constraints, verification, synthesis, equivalency checking, CDC and lint reviews, power and design-for-test analysis, scripting, silicon bring-up, lab debugging, and production qualification. Collaborates with distributed engineering teams to define resources, schedules, validation plans, and design tradeoffs.