Digital Physical Design

NXP Semiconductors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 94,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors is seeking a semiconductor engineer to design, develop, and test products for the electronic communications industry. You will implement new engineering assignments, design chip layouts, document specifications, and review device requirements to ensure conformance to design standards.

The role requires a Master’s degree and at least one year of related experience, with emphasis on PnR flow, DRC/STA, and RTL to GDS expertise, using scripting languages like Python, TCL, and Perl.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Computer Engineering (with related variants such as VLSI or Physics).
• One year of experience in job offered, Project Engineer or related occupation.
• Experience in PnR flow, DRC, RTL to GDS, and STA is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform semiconductor engineering design, development, and testing for firm products.
• Design chip layouts, check circuits, document specs, and modify devices.
• Collaborate with customers and departments on design status, testing, and failure analysis.

Skills

Physical Design

DRC

RTL to GDS

SoC Design

STA

QoR optimization

PnR flow

Python

TCL

Perl

Education

Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering

Job description

Job Description: Duties: Perform semiconductor engineering design, development, and testing for firm products and devices in conjunction with product development for the electronic communications industry.

Implement new engineering assignments including engineering and designing chip layout circuits, circuit checking, documenting specifications, and modifying and evaluating semiconductor devices and components. Contribute to technical projects within the areas of testing methods, device specification, and yield problems; perform redesign of devices, components, or integrated circuitry for hardware and other systems; and will review product requirements and logic diagrams for device definition. Ensure compliance with design specifications, codes, and stated requirements. Operate computer-assisted engineering software tools and configure the same to perform design engineering tasks and implement test programs and procedures. Confer with customers and other departments on design status, processing, testing and technical issues, and failure analysis. Monitor production of products and devices to ensure conformance to design specifications.

Qualifications:

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Computer Engineering (with related variants such as VLSI or Physics), foreign equivalent or related field. One (1) year of experience in job offered, Project Engineer or related occupation.

• Position requires one (1) year of experience in:
• 1. Physical Design Verification (DRC );
• 2. RTL to GDS;
• 3. SoC Physical Design flow;
• 4. Static Timing Analysis (STA);
• 5. optimizing clock quality of results (QoR);
• 6. Place-and-route (PnR) flow;
• 7. Scripting languages such as Python, TCL and Perl.

Salary:

$110656 per year.

NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

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