Senior Integrated Circuit Digital Design Engineer

RTX RTX · Aerospace · goleta, CA +1 · Engineering

Senior Integrated Circuit Digital Design Engineer responsible for designing next-generation digital visible and infrared image sensors. This role involves mixed-signal ASIC/ROIC development, including chip architecture, specification, design, verification, validation, fabrication, packaging, debugging, test development, failure analysis, and documentation. The engineer will develop new digital block level microarchitecture, plan work breakdown structures, design digital logic blocks using Verilog and SystemVerilog HDL, and utilize in-house digital IPs. Responsibilities include performing Synthesis, Place & Route (P&R), Static Timing Analysis (STA), and post-P&R gate-level verification, covering all steps in the digital design flow. The role also involves training and guiding junior engineers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design innovative Readout Integrated Circuits for cutting-edge imaging systems in a variety of CMOS nodes (from 180nm to 28nm).
  2. Write RTL using Verilog & SystemVerilog, construct testbenches to perform RTL simulation & verification, perform Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis, Place-and-Route, DFT (with use of scan chains), and Logical Equivalence Check:
  3. Typically, you will be working as a solo digital designer on a project performing all the tasks listed above on your own.
  4. You must have both: Front-End Digital Design (RTL writing and verification) and Back- End Digital Design (Synthesis and Place&Route) skill-sets.
  5. You will train and guide junior engineers.

Skills

Required

  • Digital Design and Signoff tools, such as Cadence Genus, Innovius, Conformal, Tempus, Voltus, or Synopsys Design Compiler, IC Compiler, Fusion Compiler, PrimeTime, TestMAX
  • TCL scripting
  • Lint tools
  • Verilog
  • SystemVerilog
  • RTL simulation & verification
  • Synthesis
  • Static Timing Analysis
  • Place-and-Route
  • DFT
  • Logical Equivalence Check
  • Front-End Digital Design
  • Back- End Digital Design

Nice to have

  • ROIC architecture, design concepts, operational control and timing
  • writing behavioral models for digital circuits and analog/mixed signal interfaces and circuits
  • Digital-on-Top mixed-signal design flow including utilization of Innovus for final chip construction
  • simulators like Spectre, Ultrasim, and CustomSim
  • MS.or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and teamwork skills

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • solo digital designer
  • Front-End Digital Design
  • Back- End Digital Design