NXP Semiconductors

Senior Digital Design Engineer

NXP Semiconductors • $120K — $145K *
Austin, TX 78745In-Person
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Qualifications

  • BSEE/BSCE/BSCS required
  • 4+ years in IP or SoC design
  • Must know SoC architecture
  • Expertise in Verilog essential
  • Experience with design quality checks required
  • Familiarity with ARM AMBA bus protocol desired
  • Knowledge of functional safety, ISO26262 is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Review IP architecture and interface specifications
  • Plan and document IP design timelines
  • Design IP using Verilog/System Verilog for quality and performance
  • Collaborate with verification team on test plans and coverage
  • Deliver completed RTL design and documentation
  • Track development metrics throughout the IP lifecycle
  • Support cross-functional teams in product development

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • Work-life balance initiatives
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Supportive team environment
  • Access to cutting-edge technology projects
Full Job Description
Business Unit Description
  • AI Chip Engineering Digital IP team defines and develops components for a wide range of products, including automotive microprocessors, application processors, microcontrollers, and networking. The Austin Digital IP team develops components for DDR, Display Controller, high-speed serial links, cores, memory controllers, and interconnect.


Job Summary:
  • Review IP architecture specifications, features and programming model, microarchitecture and interface specifications.
  • Plan IP documentation and design, including providing schedule assessments.
  • Design IP meeting requirements for quality and performance, using Verilog and System Verilog RTL, and vendor and internal checking tools.
  • Collaborate with verification team to develop test plans and complete verification execution to 100% coverage, and as per NXP standard quality and maturity standards.
  • Deliver completed IP, including RTL design and supporting documentation
  • Track metrics during IP development, include development plan milestones, code and functional coverage, defect tickets, and tracing of requirements versus design specification.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide expert support to subsystem, SoC, validation, and applications engineering teams during product development.


Key challenges:
  • Proving design meets all requirements and ensuring zero defects escape to silicon.
  • Meeting committed schedules without compromising quality


Cross-functional aspects:
  • Definition reviews with architecture teams and designers
  • Planning with verification team, architecture team, and project manager
  • Integration of digital IP, working with local and global SoC front-end design teams
  • Support for local customers on IP, subsystem and SoC verification teams, emulation and silicon validation teams
  • Support for applications engineers and end-customers to replicate and identify root cause field failures, and identify workarounds.
  • Collaborate with local and global verification and tools development teams in developing improved methods of verification


Job Qualifications:
  • Minimum BSEE/BSCE/BSCS
  • Minimum 4 years of experience in IP or SoC design
  • Knowledge of SoC architecture required
  • Expert knowledge of Verilog required
  • Experience with design quality checks, including Lint, clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, static timing analysis (STA)
  • Expert knowledge of ARM AMBA bus protocol standards desired
  • Knowledge of functional safety, including ISO26262 a plus
  • Knowledge of CPU or cache architecture a plus
  • Knowledge of C coding a plus
  • Knowledge of scripting, such as Perl or Python, a plus


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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
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$52 million
Founded
1953
5 Year Trend
+3.1%
Revenue
$8.6 billion
NASDAQ
NXPI
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