Mask Designer 5

Job description

The Rad Hard Precision Design Group is seeking an experienced mask designer to join the team in either the Research Triangle Park, NC or the Palm Bay, FL locations. The purpose of this position is to create top-level and cell-level layouts for our Rad Hard product development team targeted toward Space markets. The Rad Hard developments include power management products, precision analog products and digital core layouts along with digital library development for new process variants.

The candidate will utilize the Cadence tool set and requires interaction with circuit designers, layout designers, and CAD team.

Responsibilities

• Work at multiple levels of hierarchy from top-level layout floor planning to macro/block level routing
• Work closely with circuit designers to build physical design floorplan and create package bond diagrams
• Create high performance custom analog and mixed signal cell layout and verification
• Complete the physical layout design with the constraints of circuit design requirements
• Verify the physical layout design to meet both circuit design requirements and process requirements
• Execute mask data release and archiving
• Use new tools and methods and work with CAD/CAE to improve layout design quality and efficiency

Qualifications

Minimum fifteen years experience working with analog, power or mixed signal IC layouts A good working knowledge of IC layout methodologies, flows and CAD tools such as Cadence virtuoso layout physical verification Basic understanding of electronic principles dealing with circuit and layout design Previous experience with BCD and SOI processes. Good communication skills Familiar with device physics is preferred