NXP Semiconductors

Principal Engineer

NXP Semiconductors$187K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or related field.
  • 5 years in semiconductor engineering or a related role.
  • Proficiency in understanding Models (NLDM, AOCV, CCS, ECSM, LVF).
  • Experience with Cadence IC Design Suite, Innovus, and Synopsys PrimeTime.
  • Skilled in TCL and Perl programming.
  • Expertise in physical design, synthesis, and verification.
  • Familiarity with place and route and floorplan techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Perform semiconductor design, development, and testing for electronic communications products.
  • Work on diverse SoCs across various process technologies.
  • Optimize from device to architecture level, ensuring performance and power efficiency.
  • Research and develop new methodologies for system resource control and energy management.
  • Identify techniques for energy reduction in CPUs, GPUs, and other components.
  • Experiment with new EDA tools for automated tradeoff analysis.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for system-level energy optimization.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
  • Collaboration with a global network of design centers.
  • Involvement in cutting-edge semiconductor technologies.
  • Access to innovative design tools and methodologies.
  • Contribution to environmentally sustainable technologies.
Full 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. 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.

Five (5) years of experience in job offered Staff Design Engineer, or related occupation.

Required skills:

Position requires five (5) years of experience in:

1.Understanding of Models (NLDM, AOCV, CCS, ECSM, LVF);

2.Cadence IC Design Suite, Innovus, Synopsys PrimeTime;

3.TCL, Perl

4.Time and test chip blocks,

5.Physical Design;

6.Synthesis;

7.Physical Verification;

8.Place and route; and

9.Floorplan.

Salary: $187,272 per year

About NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 35 countries, including 11,200 engineers in 33 countries. NXP reported revenue of $8.88 billion in 2020. The company's products are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. NXP is the co-inventor of near field communication (NFC) technology along with Sony and supplies NFC chip sets that enable mobile payments, as well as secure access to cars and buildings.
Learn more about NXP Semiconductors
Size
31,000 employees
Market Cap
$39.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$52 million
Founded
1953
5 Year Trend
+3.1%
Revenue
$8.6 billion
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