Digital Design Lead/Manager

The Manager of digital and mixed-signal engineering will be responsible for development of mixed-signal SOC being developed at ODT and build the digital engineering team and will work Analog/RF engineering, FW engineering, verification, Systems Validation team, Operations, SOC Architects, and report to the Director of ASIC Engineering

Roles and Responsibilities

• • • Manage digital team, hire, and retain best talent
    • Lead SOC integration design team to develop and productize next generation mixed-signal RF/communication SOCs
    • Work with cross-functional project teams to define product specifications, system architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and execution plan
    • Implement best SoC development practices and improve design methodology to maximize efficiency and predictability
    • Deliver chip architecture, design, integration, programming model, verification, and manage hand-off to backend
    • Support Silicon and System Validation, support system integration, and production testing
    • Drive innovation and provides leadership to the organization to ensure world-class system solutions and flawless execution

Qualifications

• • • Proven track record of success in high-performance/high-volume semiconductor industry
    • SoC, embedded CPU and bus architectures, networking, and control interfaces
  • Communications / DSP algorithms and power / area efficient implementations
  • Digital IC design, design for low power and high speed, design for test (DFT)
  • System modeling, RTL coding, Lint / CDC checking, simulation, synthesis, power analysis, timing analysis in Cadence / Synopsys design environments
  • • Directed and constrained random verification, UVM methodology
    • Embedded systems FPGA emulation, lab debug and chip validation
    • Project planning and execution, and performing design tradeoffs to achieve performance, power, die size, and schedule targets
    • Self-motivated, excellent communication skills, and ability to excel and to provide leadership in a fast-paced environment
    • Senior Management experience preferred
    • BS in Electrical Engineering or related + 15 years of experience, or MS + 12 years of experience
    • Work with architecture, physical design, and design teams to lead the implementation of the digital architecture.
    • Develop and refine specification of the micro-architecture for the digital architecture.
    • Is in tune with industry trends and contributes to consistent roadmap decisions.
  • Educational:
  • BSEE required, MSEE preferred

Experience

• • • 10+ years of experience in the area of RTL design and verification of silicon
    • At Least 3+ years experience in leading low-power mixed-Signal SOC design
    • 10+ years of experience with FPGA architecture specification and design (Altera or Xilinx) for high-speed serial protocols, including USB-SS, PCIe, SATA/SAS, DisplayPort
    • Experience in leading, specifying, and work with Analog/RF team in developing, verifying, and productizing SERDES, CDR, and PLL/DLL designs
    • Experience with USB 3.0, DisplayPort, PCIe, or SATA based silicon designs preferred
    • Strong background in analog/mixed-signal integrated SOC Development
    • Strong Hardware design knowledge and familiarity with signal integrity
    • Strong foundation in SoC architecture, design, verification and physical implementation
    • Strong analytical problem solving, and attention to details
    • Knowledge of wireless, mobile, and storage domains
    • Expertise in Verilog/System Verilog, C/C++/SystemC, UVM, Scripting languages like Perl/Python, etc.
    • Excellent technical documentation skills
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • Excellent interpersonal skills, self-motivated, self-starter
    • Experience in startup environment

Expectations

• • Put the RTL for the Full chip together.
  • Evaluate the IP we have to license – like PCIe, LPDDR4, JESD 204C PHY
  • Help develop any BIST
  • Work with Verification Team to develop the FC Simulation test suites
  • Develop the RTL for the various state machines and interfaces
  • Run a few of the simulations
  • Help with the FC simulations debug
  • Help close the timing issues if any come up and work with the PD person to resolve any SI issues.
  • Be a mentor and lead a team of Digital design engineers
  • Work with Systems and Test engineering team to help validate the parts and release them to production