Principal Engineer

NXP Semiconductors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors is seeking a high-caliber semiconductor engineer to design, develop, and test advanced SoCs across diverse process technologies. You will optimize power, performance, and thermal behavior, and drive energy-management methodologies across CPU/GPU/DDR/ML accelerators.

Responsibilities include architecture-level optimizations, hardware/software co-design, and collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams to prototype innovative system solutions.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in a related field.
• Experience with IC design flows and back-end design processes.
• Strong understanding of energy management in SoCs.

Responsibilities

• Perform semiconductor engineering design, development, and testing for firm products and devices.
• Work on SoCs spanning different process technologies and market segments.
• Collaborate with performance, thermal and system teams for system-level analysis of workloads.

Skills

Understanding of Models (NLDM, AOCV,CC

Cadence IC Design Suite

Innovus

Synopsys PrimeTime

TCL

Perl

Time and test chip blocks

Physical Design

Synthesis

Physical Verification

Place and route

Floorplan

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, foreign equivalent or related field

Tools

Cadence IC Design Suite

Innovus

Synopsys PrimeTime

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. Work on a wide range of SoCs spanning different process technologies and market segments to produce a best-in-class combination of power, performance, and thermal behavior. Responsible for device to architecture level optimizations as well as hardware/software co-design. Design a wide-range of SoC solutions from very cost-sensitive, low power devices to highly integrated, high-performance devices with world-wide network of design centers. Research, design, and develop forward looking methodologies, novel infrastructures and architectures for system resource control and holistic energy management. Identify new techniques in areas for Energy reduction for CPU/GPU/Camera/DDR/ML accelerators both at core and SoC level. Experiment with new EDA tools and provide necessary automation to simplify system tradeoff analysis. Collaborate with performance, thermal and system teams in system-level analysis of workloads and use-cases to identify opportunities of energy optimization. Participate in efforts to develop and prototype new system solutions and approaches.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, foreign equivalent or related field.

Required skills

• Understanding of Models (NLDM, AOCV, CCS, ECSM, LVF)
• Cadence IC Design Suite, Innovus, Synopsys PrimeTime
• TCL, Perl
• Time and test chip blocks,
• Physical Design
• Synthesis
• Physical Verification
• Place and route
• Floorplan

Salary: $187,272 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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