Senior NVM Circuit Design Engineer - Remote

IC Enable; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IC Enable is seeking a senior IC design engineer with deep expertise in NVM architectures and a strong background in RTL design and verification. The role involves crafting design reviews, test plans, and characterization strategies and requires strong communication and analytical skills.

The candidate should have a BSEE/MSEE with 10+ years of IC design experience and be capable of supporting post-silicon activities to enable robust productization across digital, mixed-signal, and RF domains.

Qualifications

• Expert (minimum of 10 years) in NVM circuit design and architecture (ReRAM, MRAM, and Flash experience preferred)
• Experience in RTL design and design verification, preferred
• BSEE/MSEE in Applicable Field with 10+ years of experience in IC design, or equivalent
• Understanding of digital and analog/mixed signal design (digital front end and RF experience is desired)
• Proven record of technical expertise developing integrated circuit design
• Thorough understanding of best practices for silicon development tools and processes and support post-silicon effort to enable productization
• Strong communication, debugging and analytical skills with complex technical concepts
• Experience with a variety of manufacturing technologies and design applications preferred

Responsibilities

• Design reviews, test/characterization plans
• Develop and optimize IC architectures and verification plans
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver silicon products
• Support post-silicon activities to enable productization
• Prepare technical documentation and presentations

Skills

NVM design

RTL design

Design verification

Communication

Analytical skills

Debugging

Post-silicon support

Education

BSEE/MSEE

Tools

Cadence

Synopsys design flow

Job description

For over 20 years IC Enable has successfully provided design IP, IC products, services and platform solutions to demanding customers ranging from startups to Fortune 50 members. Our design and product offerings focus on high reliability, mixed-signal and digital markets while our platform solutions focus on IDM, foundry and IP providers. Now is an exciting time to join our team as we continue to change the industry through experience in technology development, full-custom ASIC / SOC and electronics development across the Semiconductor, Medical and Defense industries, including some of the most challenging fabrication processes and product applications.

We are looking for an experienced Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Circuit Design Engineer who has > 10 years of experience with custom NVM design and/or NVM IP macro design. The ideal candidate has specific technical expertise in a broad range of process technologies (180nm to FinFET) and NVM technology from NOR/NAND flash, MRAM, and ReRAM..

The right candidate must have experience in sense amp, write circuit, decoder, ATD (address transition detection), self-time sensing, charge pump, and redundancy design experience, in addition to chip level architecture and simulation experience. The ideal candidate will also have a solid understand of DFM and DFMEA, i.e. design risk mitigation and design yield enhancement techniques

Open Position:

• Open to remote depending on candidate skill and experience
  
  
  

Responsibilities and Qualifications:

• Expert (minimum of 10 Years) in NVM circuit design and architecture (ReRAM, MRAM, and Flash experience preferred)
• Expert in using Cadence/Synopsys design flow
• Experience in RTL design and design verification, preferred
• Ability to create and present design reviews, test/characterization plans
• Programming skills highly desirable, e.g. PERL, Python, SKIL, and TCL
• BSEE/MSEE in Applicable Field with 10+ years of experience in IC design, or equivalent
• Understanding of digital and analog/mixed signal design (digital front end and RF experience is desired)
• Proven record of technical expertise developing integrated circuit design
• Must have thorough understanding of best practices for silicon development tools and processes and must be able to support post-silicon effort to enable productization
• Strong communication, debugging and analytical skills with complex technical concepts
• Experience with a variety of manufacturing technologies and design applications preferred