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.
· Preferred: experience with methodology and flow automation using appropriate scripting.
· Preferred: experience with mixed-signal design methodologies.
· Preferred: experience developing design constraints and hand-off to P&R.
· Preferred: experience with STA and timing closure.
· Preferred: experience with low-power design techniques, including clock and power gating (UPF).
· Preferred: experience with power analysis and optimization.
· Preferred: experience with advanced verification methodologies (UVM).
· Preferred: experience with industry-standard protocols such as AMBA or I2C.
Additional Information
Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ' **To Make Our Lives Easier** .' As the industry's leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ' **To Make Our Lives Easier** .'
At Renesas, you can:
+ **Launch and advance your career** in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.
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