We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior ASIC Designer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both logic design with extensive Verilog coding experience and a good understanding of physical design. This role involves designing developing and optimizing ASICs for our nextgeneration products ensuring high performance efficiency and scalability.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and implement complex ASICs using System Verilog
- Technical oversee of physical design process including synthesis floor planning power grid design place and route reset/clock tree synthesis design for manufacturability and timing closure.
- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to define design specifications and requirements.
- Optimize designs for power performance and area (PPA).
- Microarchitecture of the modules you will be responsible for
- Microarchitecture documentation.
- Work with verification teams to review the test plans and provide input
- Debug root cause and fix issues found in the design as part of verification testing based on simulations or FPGA testing.
- Stay abreast of the latest ASIC design technologies and methodologies.
Qualifications :
REQUIRED
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field. A Masters degree is preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in ASIC design with a strong focus on logic design and good understanding of physical design
- Proficient in Verilog and System Verilog for RTL design and verification.
- Experience with ASIC design tools and methodologies including EDA tools for synthesis place and route and timing analysis (e.g. Cadence Synopsys).
- Deep understanding of digital design principles including FSMs data path architectures and low power design techniques.
- Good understanding of physical design and related challenges such as DFM (Design for Manufacturability) signal integrity and power integrity.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl for design automation.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with the ability to think creatively to overcome design challenges.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills with the experience leading projects and mentoring junior designer
SKILLS
- Knowledge of FPGA design and prototyping.
- Experience with analog design integration and mixedsignal design considerations.
- Familiarity with industry standards and protocols relevant to the companys products.
- Participation in silicon bringup validation and debugging
- Knowledge of TCP/IP RoCE RDMA Protocols Ethernet PCIe TLS IPSec and NVMe
- Design Experience with Cryptography Root of Trust (RoT) items like Secure Boot Secure Firmware Download Secure Debug Authentication and Attestation
Additional Information :
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Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 01/11/2025 (3 months from posting) although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.
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Compensation & Benefits Details
- An employees pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills ability knowledge of the job; (3) performance contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California Colorado New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- You will be eligible to participate in Western Digitals ShortTerm Incentive (STI) Plan which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance you may be eligible to participate in our annual LongTerm Incentive (LTI) program which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires subject to Western Digitals Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life accident and disability insurance; taxadvantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D legal plan pet insurance critical illness accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program employee stock purchase plan and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime