Our client, a leading Multinational Semiconductor EDA Industry leader, requires a Senior Principal Backend Design Engineer for a critical role in Cork City, Ireland.
Role
You will join the Controller IP Team with long-established Controller development sites in Europe, the US, and India. The team develops cutting-edge Intellectual Property (IP) for various High-Tech Markets. Our IP solutions enable customers to tackle complex IP-to-SoC development in a system context, allowing them to focus on product differentiation and reduce time to volume.
Responsibilities
* Proper handling of multiple asynchronous clock domains and their crossings.
* Lint checks and proper resolution of errors.
* Synthesis timing constraints, static timing analysis, and constraint development.
* Fundamental physical design flows and stages.
* Candidate should be able to debug and contribute to DFT architectures for hard IP, soft IP, and integrated IP test chips.
* Liaison between Controller, PHY, and Test chip teams.
* Technical leadership during the development of complex Ethernet IP.
* Planning of activities and milestones for the Digital Controller Development teams.
* Leadership of cross-functional technical meetings.
* Support customer pre-sales and post-sales meetings.
* Participate in Technical Review Meetings and Checklist Reviews as part of ISO-9001.
Requirements
* Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics, or related discipline degree.
* 10-15 years' experience in microelectronics/EDA industry.
* In-depth experience with Logic Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis, and Constraints Development.
* Experience in Ethernet Systems, or other packet Protocol.
* Top-down and bottom-up digital design processes experience.
* Verilog/System Verilog RTL Design experience.
* Front-end design tools covering LINT, Synthesis, CDC Analysis essential.
* Scripting Experience (Perl, TCL, Python).
* Technical Team leadership experience.
* Excellent oral and written English essential.
* Self-motivated with excellent planning, interpersonal, and communication skills.
Additional Skills/Preferences
* SoC Architecture and Development experience.
* Quality processes experience, such as ISO-9001 & ISO-26262 preferred.
* Front-end design tools covering LINT, Synthesis, CDC Analysis preferred.