Senior Design Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Design engineers are required to have in-depth understanding across all the elements that contribute to the products’ successful delivery. This includes low-power and high-speed design techniques and the ability to produce designs that are area efficient. Your key responsibilities will include writing micro-architecture specifications, developing the RTL and running various design checks. Additionally, you will work with the verification team to review test plans and help debug design issues. As a Staff engineer, you will also guide and support other members of the team as needed to enable the successful completion of project activities and contribute to developing and improving the design methodologies used by the team.

Required Skills and Experience:

1. Experience of RTL design for complex ASIC products & SoCs using Verilog and/or SystemVerilog
2. Experience with Arm-based designs and/or Arm System Architectures
3. Knowledge or experience with Functional Safety concepts and standards (e.g., ISO 26262, IEC 61508). Should have worked on an Automotive IP or SoC from definition to completion.
4. Experience or knowledge in the following areas: Static design checks, Synthesis and timing analysis, Power management techniques
5. Power domain and Clock Domain Crossing implementation
6. An understanding of the fundamentals of computer architecture and systems and practical experience of working on Processor based system designs
7. Technical team leadership, mentoring or coaching experience.
8. Knowledge of shell programming/scripting (e.g. Tcl, Perl, Python etc.)

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

1. High level programming experience such as C/C++ and/or assembly programming
2. Experience in embedded operating systems, device drivers, microprocessor, and embedded system hardware architectures.
3. Knowledge or experience of performing DFMEA, DFA at the module and system level.

In Return:

We offer a competitive reward package including annual bonus, healthcare and wellness support. As well as other benefits such as a supplementary pension, and 25 days annual leave (with option to buy an additional 5 days per year).