Principal Digital Design Engineer

NXP Semiconductors; Eindhoven; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A bonus plan

Possibility to purchase extra holidays

An excellent pension plan

A work from home policy

Possibility to buy company shares with

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors in Eindhoven, Netherlands seeks a Principal Digital Design Engineer to lead a team developing in-vehicle networking transceivers. You will define architecture, optimize for area/power/timing, and collaborate with verification, DV and validation teams to ensure timely delivery of high-quality automotive products.

The role focuses on SystemVerilog/Chisel implementation, functional safety, and mentoring junior engineers, with a permanent contract and a competitive package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or similar.
• Proven track record leading digital design teams to meet design parameters.
• Experience in silicon design including synthesis, timing, and DFT.

Responsibilities

• Lead team of engineers to design, implement and support in-vehicle networking devices as part of NXP's Automotive product line
• Manage day-to-day performance of junior engineering team members
• Define block requirements and architecture, optimizing for area, power and timing, implementing functional safety requirements, and coordinating with verification and validation teams to comply with automotive design processes
• Documentation - Create robust design documentation to clearly communicate design intent to team members
• Implementation - Implement design intent in SystemVerilog or Chisel
• Collaboration - Work closely with Architecture, digital and analog design, DV and validation teams to ensure timely delivery of quality products

Skills

SystemVerilog

Chisel

VHDL

Ethernet

RISC-V

ARM

Debug

Team leadership

Synthesis

Clock timing

Education

B.S./M.S. Electrical/Computer Engineering

Job description

Principal Digital Design Engineer

Our Team The SERDES Networking Solutions (SNS) team within NXP develops transceivers for in-vehicle networking (IVN) with data rates from 2Gbs to 16Gps. These transceivers deploy sophisticated analog and digital design to provide video, audio, control and Ethernet connectivity within the vehicle.

We are looking for a Principal Digital Design Engineer to join our team of engineers who define and implement new capabilities for our transceivers.

Your responsibilities

• Lead team of engineers to design, implement and support in-vehicle networking devices as part of NXP's Automotive product line
• Manage day-to-day performance of junior engineering team members
• Define block requirements and architecture, optimizing for area, power and timing, implementing functional safety requirements, and coordinating with verification and validation teams to comply with automotive design processes
• Documentation - Create robust design documentation to clearly communicate design intent to team members
• Implementation - Implement design intent in SystemVerilog or Chisel
• Collaboration - Work closely with Architecture, digital and analog design, DV and validation teams to ensure timely delivery of quality products

Your profile

• B.S./M.S. Electrical/Computer Engineering (or similar degrees)
• Experience as a chip lead, architect or subsystem lead in leading digital design teams to meet design parameters
• Proven track record of multiple successful tape-outs covering the complete chip design lifecycle in industry.
• Experience in silicon design, including synthesis, static timing closure, and DFT
• Fluent in SystemVerilog or VHDL and an object-oriented software language
• Expertise desired in Ethernet networking, automotive design processes, embedded ARM or RISC-V processors, and Chisel
• Hands on experience in debug and silicon bringup

What can you expect?

Contract: This is a full-time position with a permanent contract.

Benefits

• A bonus plan
• Possibility to purchase extra holidays
• An excellent pension plan
• A work from home policy
• Possibility to buy company shares with a 15% discount

Besides a competitive salary, we offer great benefits:

Development opportunities

We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we provide you with a mix of learning through on-the-job experiences, learning from industries bests, and learning through education to help you develop your core and professional skills.

Creating Secure Connections and Infrastructure for a Smarter World NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) makes products and environments safer, more sustainable, and more secure with innovative connectivity and edge processing solutions for a smarter world. We are in the business of better. Not just better technologies, but better innovations to improve society. As the world leader in secure connectivity and processing solutions for embedded applications, NXP is solving the world’s most complex technology challenges to accelerate business innovation, enhance how we work, and advance how we live.

Commitment At NXP. We recognize NXP is a powerful change agent as we continue to deliver innovative solutions that advance a more sustainable future. We remain steadfast in our commitment to sustainability and making measurable year-on-year progress.

Also, we aim to create an inclusive work environment and we will not tolerate racism, discrimination or harassment of any kind. We have programs in place focused on diversity, inclusion and equality.