Trusted Microelectronics Research & Design Engineer - GTRI - CIPHER

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About The Position

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is seeking a Microelectronics expert to research and contribute to the design, synthesis, characterization, packaging, testing, reliability, security, and trustworthiness of nano-fabricated microelectronic semiconductor devices. This may include research of prototype or commercial semiconductor devices and tools, such as ASICs and FPGAs. The position involves close collaboration with a highly technical team of research leaders to accomplish task and program objectives, contribute technically to proposal ideation, and conceive and execute internal research efforts refining core research processes and capabilities. Responsibilities range from CAD/EDA tools development, semiconductor nano-device design, fabrication, and verification, to clean-room equipment utilization. Formal methods and other advanced algorithmic techniques will be leveraged to enable and evaluate security and trustworthiness pre and post-fabrication. The position will utilize a wide range of knowledge from semiconductor physics to micro/nano synthesis and fabrication tools, and develop novel techniques, algorithms, and tools to evaluate CAD/EDA flows, architectures, materials, and fabricated devices with new properties and features.

Requirements

A strong understanding of embedded systems, hardware design, digital logic design, and various microelectronic architecture.
Competency designing hardware leveraging at least one industry-standard HDL language (i.e, Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL).
Experience working with at least one major FPGA vendor design tool suite (i.e., Xilinx Vivado, Altera/Intel Quartus, Microsemi Libero) and familiarity with the full design flow (i.e., Simulation, Synthesis, Place-and-Route, Timing Analysis and Closure, Floor Planning).
U.S. Citizenship required due to research contracts with the U.S. federal government.
Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Active TS/SCI Clearance
Hands-on experience with hardware testing, troubleshooting, and embedded hardware/software integration using general laboratory test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.
Design experience with common hardware interfaces (e.g., UART, SPI, I2C), data flow (e.g., FIFOs, clock domain crossing), and bus protocols (e.g., AXI, AMBA).
Experience performing verification of hardware designs leveraging industry-standard tools and methodologies (e.g., ModelSim/Questa, SystemVerilog, UVM).
Experience using Python /Octave/MATLAB/Simulink for modeling digital signal processing blocks.
Experience with analog/digital circuit design and PCB design and manufacturing.
Experience with embedded C/C++ or Rust programming and a high-level scripting language (e.g. Python, TCL).
Comfortable working in a Linux environment.

Responsibilities

Utilize industry standard microelectronic design and verification tools (.e.g Vivado, Quartus, Cadence, Modelsim, OneSpin)
Apply knowledge of microelectronic circuitry and its design implementation into microelectronics hardware security techniques
Develop custom software and scripting solutions in support of microelectronic design security and analysis
Implement software interfacing with microelectronic design EDA/CAD tools
Implement advanced algorithms covering graph analysis, data analysis, and clustering
Utilize basic microelectronics laboratory equipment (oscilloscopes, signal generators, logic analyzer, optical microscopes, soldering equipment) to support design, analysis, and verification tasks
Develop and maintain familiarity with at least one of the following languages: Verilog, VHDL, Python, C, C++, Rust, Kotlin, or Java (or similar)
Contribute small sections to technical reports and presentations