Sr. Lead ASIC design Engineer - Digital Design

NXP Semiconductors; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors in Hyderabad is seeking a senior ASIC/SoC RTL design engineer. You will define hardware architectures for AI inference SOCs, contribute to micro-architecture decisions, and own features end-to-end from spec to debug.

You will collaborate with physical design and verification teams to meet timing, power and correctness goals, model workloads with architects, and validate AI inference use cases in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC RTL design.
• Strong Verilog/SystemVerilog coding skills.
• Solid understanding of synthesis, timing, and power analysis.
• Experience with Lint/CDC/RDC flows.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis capability.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement hardware architectures optimized for AI inference SOC's.
• Contribute to micro-architecture definition and evaluate design trade-offs for complex SOC including custom-ISA based processors, high-speed interconnects & high-bandwidth IO's.
• Own features end-to-end: specification → RTL → integration → synthesis → debug.
• Collaborate with physical design teams on synthesis, timing closure, and power optimization.
• Collaborate with verification team to ensure design correctness.
• Work with architect engineers to model workloads, analyze performance bottlenecks, and validate AI inference use cases.

Skills

ASIC/SoC RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Synthesis & timing analysis

Lint/CDC/RDC flows

Debugging

Power analysis

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement hardware architectures optimized for AI inference SOC's
• Contribute to micro-architecture definition and evaluate design trade-offs for complex SOC including custom-ISA based processors, high-speed interconnects & high-bandwidth IO's
• Own features end-to-end: specification → RTL → integration → synthesis → debug
• Collaborate with physical design teams on synthesis, timing closure, and power optimization.
• Collaborate with verification team to ensure design correctness.
• Work with architect engineers to model workloads, analyze performance bottlenecks, and validate AI inference use cases.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC RTL design
• Strong Verilog/SystemVerilog coding skills
• Solid understanding of synthesis, timing, and power analysis
• Experience with Lint/CDC/RDC flows
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis capability

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