Hybrid Senior Digital Design Engineer

at Cirrus Logic

• Job title: Senior Digital Design Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About the role

• Digital IC Design Engineer developing SoCs within High-Performance Mixed-Signal R&D division. Joining a team committed to innovation for top consumer brands in cutting-edge technology.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop new digital circuit architectures from concept, architecture, design, design integration through to production on advanced process nodes including development of block level testbenches
• Collaborate with a team of engineers with responsibility for the delivery of complex mixed-signal products and IPs
• Contribute to technical reviews and ensure IP quality using checklists
• Influence the growth of the team through supervision of junior engineers

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master's or Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering (or related discipline) with an extensive proven background in digital CMOS circuit design
• Implementation of complex digital circuits and sub-systems in RTL using Verilog / SystemVerilog
• Understanding of digital system-level design, including use of standard bus protocols, bus architecture design and chip-level clock and reset architectures
• Verification of block-level digital designs
• Understanding of synthesis and timing analysis of digital circuits
• Good interpersonal skills, share technical expertise and knowledge, contribute to design reviews, work optimally to resolve conflicts
• Organised, detailed, and meticulous with strong communication skills
• Self-motivated with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with a sense of urgency and thrive in a dynamic environment
• An understanding, appreciation, and passion for mixed signal engineering (preferred)
• Experience working within UVM based verification environments (preferred)
• Scripting and automation of design tasks (preferred)
• Experience with AMBA, SPI, I2C protocols (preferred)
• Lab and silicon validation skills; Experience of chip bring-up and debug from design perspective (preferred)
• Good understanding of Linting, CDC and RDC tools (preferred)
• Collaboration with DFT and Place and Route teams (preferred)
• Board level interface standards and interface design (preferred)
• Experience with clock generation circuits and handling multiple clock domains (preferred)
• Experience with Power gating and low power design techniques (preferred)
• Experience with ARM, RISC-V, or similar microcontrollers as well as memory controllers (preferred)
• DSP filter design using MATLAB and signal analysis techniques (preferred)

Benefits

• Inclusion and fairness culture
• Community engagement activities
• Enjoyable employee experiences