Staff Digital Design Engineer

Job description

Renesas Electronics is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Digital Design Engineer to join our growing hardware development team in Chandler, AZ. In this role, you will be responsible for designing power and area-optimized digital circuits for complex mixed-signal applications.

Job Purpose & Dimensions

• Interpret high level requirements to architect, design & integrate low-power digital circuits for mixed-signal data conversion and power management products in advanced process nodes.
• Support full product lifecycle from concept to mass-production; communicating closely with wider organization through the various stages of silicon development.
• Provide technical leadership & influence to the digital design team by contributing to technical discussions & reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and supporting recruitment.
• Work closely with Analog and Verification engineers to deliver high-quality silicon solutions.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring digital development process is state-of-art and achieves budget, schedule, and project deliverable goals.
• Designing digital RTL that meets timing, area, power and any adhering standards specifications.
• Integrating design at the top level and running block & top-level simulations.
• Participate in all aspects of Mixed-signal design flow - Micro-architecture, Design partitioning, RTL Verilog / System Verilog Design, Generating Timing Constraints, Synthesis, Interaction with P&R Team, Timing Analysis, LINT, CDC, RDC, UPF.
• Working closely with P&R team to generate a layout that meets timing, area, and power requirements.
• Support DFT strategy and implementation, and review test case development.
• Assisting with top level test-bench debug, and running RTL & gate level simulations
• Working with analog and digital verification engineers to come up with complex test scenarios for pre-silicon verification.
• Supporting analog team to develop AMS, System Verilog or Verilog-real behavioral models.
• Developing detailed block & chip level design documents and collateral.
• Holding and participating in key design reviews and completion of various checklists.
• Perform silicon evaluation as required.
• Document device errata, develop work-around solutions, implement engineering changes when necessary.

Qualifications

• >10 years of digital design experience in one of the following areas: wireless handheld, data conversion, and power management.
• Degree-level qualification in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Fluent in Verilog / SystemVerilog RTL for digital CMOS circuit design.
• Strong understanding of ASIC design methodology.
• Strong understanding of Lint, CDC & RDC tools.
• Strong understanding of block-level & chip-level verification techniques.
• Strong & proven ability to debug both RTL & gate-level simulations.
• Mandatory competence in written and verbal English.
• Willingness to travel domestically or internationally on short notice.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Preferred

• experience with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) concepts and hardware realizations.
• experience with methodology and flow automation using appropriate scripting.
• experience with mixed-signal design methodologies.
• experience developing design constraints and hand-off to P&R.
• experience with STA and timing closure.
• experience with low-power design techniques, including clock and power gating (UPF).
• experience with power analysis and optimization.
• experience with advanced verification methodologies (UVM).
• experience with industry-standard protocols such as AMBA or I2C.