Digital IC Design Engineer

Texas Instruments•Dallas, TX

17h

About The Position

Designers bring semiconductors to life by defining, developing and/or modifying digital electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry. They work with other designers and the broader R&D and demand creation teams to align on approaches and parameters for a given device, creating block level specifications for the designs. They take the designs through the concept, implementation, and validation phases and then into mass production. Designers also conduct tests and analyze data to ensure the chosen methods are optimal for the defined specifications and reliability requirements. As a member of the Embedded Processors team, you will be working on state-of-the-art processors and microcontrollers to make the world smarter, safer, and greener. These products are the heart of autonomous vehicles, intelligent robots, electric vehicles, and energy efficient homes and push the boundaries of technology integrating high-speed interface controllers, networking accelerators, deep learning accelerators, DSPs, ARM/RISC-V compute cores, vision analytics, security, and multimedia. You will help build products that will transform the world by making technology reachable, affordable and accessible for all. The job offers the opportunity to Design, Architect and Micro-architect IPs enabling data movement, interconnect, safety, security, Realtime functionality and broader infrastructure components to help develop Embedded Processors. As an IP owner, you will drive the requirements gathering, design, and implementation of the IP’s to ensure that the differentiated IP meets all functional requirements as well as holds high quality standards. You will interface with various engineering teams within the product line including SoC Design, Verification, Validation, Test, Systems, Applications and Marketing to successfully execute new IP’s from concept to design. You will be a core member in the IP Design team driving flawless execution, while finding innovative solutions to customers’ problems through “out of the box thinking” to deliver highly differentiated products.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in Design/RTL/DV development
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
Hands-on front-end design experience of complex multi clock domain IP blocks
Ability to convert high level system requirements/changes into micro-architectural changes and then into RTL
Must know Verilog
Experience with Lint checkers, Clock domain crossing (CDC) checkers, Synthesis and timing-closure
Must have worked with simulation and waveform debug tools (eg: Cadence simvision)

Nice To Haves

Expertise in High-speed Interface IPs (DDR, USB, CSI, DSI, PCIe, UCIe)
Experience with System Verilog
Experience with scripting languages such as Tcl, Perl, and Python
Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions
Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery
Verification and validation experiences are a plus

Responsibilities

Be a key team member from IP requirement definition till release to market, working closely with all cross-functional teams
Define or enhance the micro-architecture for digital IP blocks
RTL development and QC flows to ensure superior IP quality
Interface with 3rd party IP vendors and drive requirements and delivery milestones/quality
Work closely with IP verification team to help build the IP verification plan and tests. Support functional debugs
Support IP during silicon bring-up activities, test program development, customer engagement and silicon/application debug
Drive IP architectural optimization for area, power and performance improvements