Digital ASIC Design Engineer
About The Position
Draper is an independent, nonprofit research and development company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. The 2,000+ employees of Draper tackle important national challenges with a promise of delivering successful and usable solutions. From military defense and space exploration to biomedical engineering, lives often depend on the solutions we provide. Our multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists work in a collaborative environment that inspires the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for true innovation. An ASIC Hardware Engineer specifies, designs, verifies, tests, and documents Application-Specific Integrated Circuits. The engineer develops the architecture, designs circuits and/or HDL, performs simulations, verifies and tests designs. Current Active US Secret Clearance Required.
Requirements
- Proficiency in integrated circuit design
- Understanding of integrated circuits, semiconductors, and general computer architecture
- Ability to write detailed design specifications
- Ability to manage small technical teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent mathematical skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent time management skills with the proven ability to meet deadlines
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize tasks
- Demonstrate strong organization, planning, and time management skills to achieve program goals
- Requires a bachelor's degree in Engineering, or related field.
- Requires 5-7 years of experience with a bachelor's degree, or 3-5 years of experience with a master's degree, or 0-2 years of experience with a PhD in ASIC Hardware Engineering or related.
- solid skills in front-end digital systems design with experience in design flows from Cadence or Synopsys.
- Be fluent in SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL and familiar with LINT, simulation and synthesis.
- Current Active US Secret Clearance Required.
Nice To Haves
- Masters degree preferred.
- Familiarity with architectures for secure systems design, e.g., cryptographic encoders / decoders or tagged processor architectures is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience with successful tape-outs at advanced nodes is desired.
- Experience leading and managing design teams is also desired.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to system-level design
- Optimize hardware designs for performance, power, and cost
- Evaluate the hardware feasibility of complex algorithms and requirements
- Independently contribute to complex chip architectures and designs
- Independently drive solutions to complex problems - develop requirements, propose ways forward when customer requirements are unclear or incomplete, and adapt appropriately to changes in requirements
- Contribute to business development and proposal activities
- Develop, document, and teach best practices to less experienced engineers
- Perform other duties as assigned
Benefits
- workplace flexibility
- employee clubs ranging from photography to yoga
- health and finance workshops
- off site social events
- discounts to local museums and cultural activities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
