Principal ASIC Implementation Engineer

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory • Cambridge, MA

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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. For more information about Draper, visit www.draper.com. Draper's Digital ASIC Implementation Team is seeking a motivated and experienced Principal Hardware Engineer to perform logic optimization, DFT insertion, physical layout, static timing analysis, timing closure and design rule checking activities. In this role, you will use modern implementation flows to create solutions for complex digital and mixed-signal designs in the areas of embedded security, cryptography, signal and image processing, navigation and communications.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor's degree in Engineering, or related field. Masters degree preferred.
• Requires 7-10 years of experience with a bachelor's degree, or 5-10 years of experience with a master's degree in ASIC Hardware Engineering or related.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with low power circuit design
• Experience with CMOS advanced nodes below 32nm
• Experience with radiation-hardened electronics

Responsibilities

• Design and simulate circuits at transistor-level to implement architecture and requirement specifications
• 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 or guide physical layout, including floor-planning, and simulate circuits using extracted parasitics, contribute to design-for-test development
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree