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Design Engineer - DFT

Role : Manage 2 -3 hierarchical blocks, DFT simulations, debug , pattern generation. Support scan chain insertion and post silicon debug

Desired Skills:

  • DFT logic integration and verification using testmax / tessent / modus
  • Experience on improving coverage.
  • Gate Level DFT verification with and without timing using vcs / ncsim.
  • Pattern generation, verification and delivery to ATE team.
  • Post silicon debug and support on failing patterns.
  • Good experience on EDA tools of reputed vendor like Mentor, Synopsis.
  • LBIST experience is a plus.
  • DFT mode STA and timing closure support is a plus

 

Experience : 2 to 3 Years

Design Engineer - DFT

Role : Manage 2 -3 hierarchical blocks, DFT simulations, debug , pattern generation. Support scan chain insertion and post silicon debug

Desired Skills:

  • DFT logic integration and verification using testmax / tessent / modus
  • Experience on improving coverage.
  • Gate Level DFT verification with and without timing using vcs / ncsim.
  • Pattern generation, verification and delivery to ATE team.
  • Post silicon debug and support on failing patterns.
  • Good experience on EDA tools of reputed vendor like Mentor, Synopsis.
  • LBIST experience is a plus.
  • DFT mode STA and timing closure support is a plus

 

Experience : 2 to 3 Years

Sr. Design Engineer - DFT

Role : Manage hierarchical blocks and pattern retargetting to top level, simulations debug and can think of different ways to improve coverage, scan insertion and post silicon bringup.

Desired Skills:

  • Good experience in scan insertion and ATPG in block level and pattern retargetting in top level.
  • DFT logic integration and verification using testmax / tessent / modus
  • Experience on improving coverage and can support with innovative ways to improve coverage.
  • Gate Level DFT verification with and without timing using vcs / ncsim.
  • Pattern generation, verification and delivery to ATE team.
  • Post silicon debug and support on failing patterns.
  • Good experience on EDA tools of reputed vendor like Mentor, Synopsis.
  • JTAG and MBIST/LBIST insertion and pattern generation.
  • Can manage and resolves scan issues, DRCs for small teams.

 

Experience : 4 to 6 Years

Technical Lead Engineer - DFT

Role : Derive DFT architecture for a SOC in collaboration with product engineering team. Plan and track DFT implementation. Guide other DFT members in implementing DFT for hierarchical SOC. Support post silicon debug

Desired Skills

  • 5+ tapeout as DFT lead/Sr DFT engineer.
  • DFT architecture definition w.r.t. test time/cost, coverage, test power. Good experience/concept on all aspect of DFT i.e. SCAN/ATPG, MBIST, Boundary Scan.
  • DFT logic integration and verification.
  • Experience on debugging low coverage.
  • Gate Level DFT verification with and without timing.
  • Pattern generation, verification and delivery to ATE team.
  • Post silicon debug and support on failing patterns.
  • Experience of leading small DFT team is plus.
  • Good experience on EDA tools of reputed vendor like Mentor, Synopsis. LBIST experience is plus.
  • DFT mode STA and timing closure support.

 

Experience : 6 to 9 Years

Design Engineer - Synthesis and STA

Role : Perform Synthesis for SOC and Blocks. Understand and develop synthesis/STA constraints.Perform timing Sign-Off and generate timing ECOs.

Desired Skills

  • Good understanding of Synthesis/STA concepts (Synthesis, Timing, Equivalence Checks, Extraction, Noise, Power, UPF/CPF)
  • Perform synthesis based on Power/Performance/Area/Schedule targets.
  • Timing Constraints generation for synthesis and Timing signoff.
  • Logical Equivalence between RTL to Netlist and Netlist to Netlist.
  • Netlist handoff lint checks.
  • Understanding of Timing closure with Analog PHYs and external interfaces like RGMII, GMII, SDHC, SPI etc. is a plus.
  • Hands-on experience with Design compiler/RTL compiler/ Genus and primetime/tempus.
  • Good scripting skills (TCL/Perl)
  • Familiarity with PD concepts/flow and assist PD team if and when required

 

Experience : 2 to 3 Years

Design Engineer – Physical Design

Role : Take up ownership of blocks independently (RTL2GDSII)

Desired Skills:

  • Interaction with RTL designers on timing paths.
  • Functional and DFT constraint development exposure.
  • Based on PPA targets, should be able to implement different floorplans.
  • Come up with strategies to control congestion through understanding of specific block level challenges.
  • Should be able to built the clock tree on multi-clocks, synchronous and asynchronous clock domain partitions.
  • Should be good in timing analysis.
  • Ability to own DRC/LVS/ANTENNA clean ups at block level.
  • Implementation experience on IR/EM analysis and fixes.
  • Should be good in innovus/icc2, tempus/primetime & genus/design compiler
  • Have low power implementation experience & should be good in scripting.

 

Experience : 2 to 3 Years

Design Engineer – Physical Verification & Reliability

Role : Take up ownership of physical verification and Reliability of blocks and fullchip

Desired Skills:

  • Interaction with Physical designers on DRC, LVS, manufacturing and reliability targets.
  • PV and IR/EM flow development exposure.
  • Understanding DRM and EM rules of target technology.
  • Come up with strategies for faster physical verification and reliability closure.
  • Should be able to understand the power intent of design and analog integration guidelines.
  • Should be good in debug and analysis.
  • Ability to own milestone and schedule tracking for DRC/LVS/ANTENNA clean ups at block level and fullchip level.
  • Implementation experience on IR/EM analysis and fixes.
  • Should be having working knowledge in innovus/icc2 and klayout/virtuoso
  • Have low power implementation experience & should be good in scripting.

 

Experience : 2 to 3 Years

Sr. Design Engineer – Physical Design

Role : Manage 2 block level Physical Design and Timing Closure. Guide other team members on PnR challenges

Desired Skills

  • Ability to manage multiple floorplan, place and Route of blocks using icc2 / innovus
  • Ability to converge timing using primetime / tempus
  • Ability to converge physical verification and IR & EM using calibre / pvs / icv and redhawk / voltus
  • Managing & Reporting Schedule and Status of deliverables
  • Clarity in Communication
  • Updating and understanding of Timing Constraints.
  • Scripting and Automation skills

 

Experience : 3-5 Years

Design Engineer-RTL

Desired Skills:

  • Hands-on experience with focus on front-end complex RTL design involving logic IP design.
  • Efficient in Coding in Verilog
  • Creating testbenches in Verilog or UVM
  • Running simulations using ncsim, vcs or similar tools
  • Debugging design issues using waveform viewers
  • Creating SDC and UPF constraints for synthesis.
  • Understanding timing reports.
  • Must be familiar with all stages of the ASIC design flow (including specification, architecture, and design implementation)
  • Highly motivated and skillful at solving difficult technical problems
  • Experience with scripting in Perl/Python/Shell

 

Experience : 2 to 4 Years

Sr Design Engineer-RTL

Role :

  • Perform detailed block design from system requirements and evolving specifications. Perform RTL coding, Lint checks, CDC tests, creating timing constraint file. Working closely with Synthesis, STA, PD and DFT teams to meet all functional requirements, performance, power, and area goals

Desired Skills:

  • Creating Design Methodology, Micro-architecture, RTL coding in Verilog
  • Domain knowledge of high speed IP (USB, PCIe, DDR) or Processors (RISC-V or ARM)
  • Efficient in Coding in Verilog
  • Creating testbenches in Verilog or UVM
  • Running simulations using ncsim, vcs or similar tools
  • Debugging design issues using waveform viewers
  • Creating SDC and UPF constraints for synthesis.
  • Understanding timing reports.
  • Equivalence checking using formality or conformal.

Experience : 4 to 6 Years

Technical Lead Engineer-RTL

Role :

  • The RTL Lead Engineer performs detailed block design from system requirements and evolving specifications. Perform RTL coding, Lint checks, CDC tests, creating timing constraint file. Working closely with Synthesis, STA, PD and DFT teams to meet all functional requirements, performance, power, and area goals

 

Desired Skills:

  • Develop HW architecture from specification documents.
  • Owning responsibilities include writing RTL code for IP development/RTL integration, checking the code for Lint/CDC issues, checking synthesizability and timing quality of the design, checking low power implementation, supporting verification team with debug and support physical design teams on timing constraints and other design topics using Verilog/System Verilog/VHDL. 
  • Develop and execute low power design intent (UPF/CPF). 
  • Design top level RTL, integration of blocks, clocks, resets, configuration registers, etc
  • Knowledge of low-speed bus protocols (AMBA/OCP) and high-speed serial protocols (PCIe/USB/Ethernet) will used at various stages of the design. 
  • Awareness of DFT concepts to be used to fix functional violation that may get introduced which including DFT structures.
  • Carry out static checks including Lint/CDC (Spyglass), synthesis, LEC and STA.  Debugging and fixing functional break. 
  • Take ownership of tasks and drive tasks to closure
  • Must have gone through at least 3 tape-out of a large, high speed designs

 

Experience : 6 to 9 Years

Design Engineer - Verification

Role : Perform verification using UVM and SVM on IP, Blocks and top.

Desired Skills:

  • Ability to understand RTL quickly
  • familiar with ASIC/FPGA verification methodology
  • able to create a Verilog/VHDL module test specification from the ASIC/FPGA functional specification
  • should have the Knowledge of the System Verilog’s Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)

 

Experience : 2 to 3 Years

Sr. Design Engineer - Verification

Role : Perform verification using UVM and SVM on multiple IP, Blocks and top.

Desired Skills:

  • Experience working of SV and UVM methodology and knowledge of at least one industry standard protocols like Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, USB, AXI, RISC-V, AMBA, DDR or similar is required, must have executed at-least 1 IP or SoC Verification projects.
  • Experience in setting up and debugging functional and/or gate-level simulations
  • Experience in translating functional requirements into verification plans
  • Experience in developing verification environment and regression setup.
  • Coverage analysis and closure.
  • Familiarity with using 3rd party VIPs
  • Good handle on Scripting (Python/Perl/shell).

 

Experience : 4 to 6 Years

Technical Lead Engineer - Verification

Role : Verification of the design, architecture and micro-architecture at pre-silicon, emulation, and post-silicon activities

Desired Skills:

  • Experience working of SV and UVM methodology and knowledge of at least one industry standard protocols like Ethernet, PCIe, MIPI, USB, AXI, RISC-V, AMBA, DDR or similar is required, must have executed at-least 3 IP or SoC Verification projects
  • Experience in setting up and debugging functional and/or gate-level simulations
  • Experience in translating functional requirements into verification plans
  • Experience in developing verification environment and regression setup.
  • Evaluating and using 3rd party VIPs
  • Coverage analysis and closure.

 

Experience : 6 to 9 Years

Design Engineer - FPGA

Desired Skills:

  • Experience in design, development, and verification of complex FPGAs.
  • RTL development in VHDL/Verilog/system Verilog
  • Familiar with Xilinx/ Altera FPGAs.
  • Familiar with Xilinx ISE, Vivado/ Altera Quartus FPGA tools
  • Experience in Functional verification using modelSim

 

Experience : 3 to 5 Years

Business Development – Manager

Role :

  • Support the commercial aspects of semiconductor design projects.
  • Market Research of semiconductor services and custom silicon development trends
  • Closely work with Management to define, guide and pursue revenue and profits growth trajectory.
  • Build and manage a portfolio of customers in need of ASIC design services.
  • Advise and promote the most optimal design approaches for end application of customer’s products.
  • Prepare quotations, negotiate & finalize contracts and agreements terms.
  • Track and report on sales activities and performance metrics
  • Provide forecasts for and updates of the business.

 

Desired Skills:

  • Strong Knowledge of the digital ASIC design flows and parameters influencing the efforts of the tasks.
  • Dealt with world leading IP vendors, EDA vendors and chip foundries for ASIC design.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication in English (Knowledge of Japanese, Taiwanese or Korean is a big advantage)
  • Experience in a customer-facing role preferred.
  • Very strong in using Excel and PowerPoint.

 

Requirements :

  • 8 to 12 Years (of which 5 years in Business Development)
  • Bachelors or Masters Degree

 

Bangalore preferred (can be remote also)

Internships

Software Intern – ML Business Applications

Qualifications

  • Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science or similar
  • Eligible for CPT or OPT during the term.
    • Experience with Python’s scientific libraries (numpy, scipy, matplotlib, etc.)
    • Experience with training and verifying machine learning and deep learning models in frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
    • Good verbal and written communication skills

    Benefits

    • Each intern will receive a competitive stipends.

    Responsibilities

    • You will contribute to operations group with AI-assisted enhancements to our applications
    • Research, build, train, and quantitatively/qualitatively assess deep learning models
    • Identify and capture datasets from different sources for model development, which may include discovering, recording, simulating, cleaning, and pre-processing the data
    • Provide demonstrations of the concept, design, and results 
    • Document all design, experiments, and results

    Apply before 30-Aug-2024