Senior Principal Digital Design Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Principal Digital Design Engineer with experience developing micro-architecture and implementation of the front-end circuit design, including RTL, synthesis, IP integration, and block-level verification for high performance network controllers. The candidate must have good knowledge of communication/interface protocols such as PCI-Express (Gen-3 and above), Ethernet, NVMe, etc.

Basic qualifications:

• Strong academic and technical background in electrical engineering. A Bachelor’s degree in EE is required, and a Master’s degree is preferred.
• 12+ years’ experience supporting or developing complex SoC/silicon products for Server, Storage, and/or Networking applications.
• Professional attitude with the ability to prioritize a dynamic list of multiple tasks, plan and prepare for customer meetings in advance, and work with minimal guidance and supervision.
• Entrepreneurial, open-mind behavior and can-do attitude. Think and act fast with the customer in mind!
• Authorized to work in the US and start immediately.

Required experience:

• Hands-on, thorough knowledge of high-speed protocols like PCIe, Ethernet, NVMe, etc.
• Proven front end design expertise – architecture, RTL, simulations, synthesis, timing closure, GLS, DFT etc.
• Full chip or block level ownership from architecture to GDS, driving multiple complex designs to production
• Experience with Cadence and/or Synopsys digital design tools/flows
• Good knowledge of design for test (DFT), stuck-at and transition scan test insertion
• Familiarity with UVM based design verification
• Silicon bring-up and debug expertise
• Small-geometry CMOS (≤28nm) design

Preferred experience:

• Scripting with Python or other equivalent programming languages.
• Development/support for PCIe or Ethernet Switch products.

The base salary range is $184,000.00 USD – $260,000.00 USD. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions.