Staff Engineer, Digital Design

pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor’s 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission—to enhance Murata’s world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi’s product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi’s team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Position can be in: 

San Diego, CA  
Austin, TX  

 

Job Summary

This position is for a Staff Digital Engineer in the Digital Engineering team within a mixed signal RF, analog and digital product Engineering Department.  This engineer’s primary responsibility is to support pSemi Product Development teams by designing, verifying, assisting with characterization, and testing digital functions at the block, subsystem, and IC level. This includes all aspects of development including specification review, Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL arch/micro-arch design, simulation, verification, and debug. Knowledge of design for test, fault coverage, and generation of test vectors for production, characterization, and life cycle is also required. This position requires scripting and software skills to develop or enhance productivity tools, familiarity with IC design techniques, and understanding of CMOS transistor level design is also required. 

 

The individual must have demonstrated experience in system architecture and circuit analysis, design, test, product development, and mass production product releases. As part of a cross-functional product development team the candidate will support other essential disciplines including marketing and applications, project management, characterization, test engineering, and production. 

 

Good communications skills for interfacing with product development, test, process, and reliability engineers is also required. Ability to take a vague concept and turn it into a design specification is also desired. 

 

Roles & Responsibilities

This position has responsibility for:

• Provide technical leadership, insight, mentoring, and support to the digital design team  
• Provide architectural guidance to IC definition and specification  
• Design using Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL  
• Understanding of Design Verification  
• Front end support (Synthesis, Timing closure, DFT)  
• Digital Characterization test programs and data analysis  
• Support ATE test vector generation, Silicon Validation.  
• Assisting in failure analysis 

 

Competency Requirements

In order to perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Displaying Technical Expertise: Keeps his/her technical skills current; effectively applies specialized knowledge and skills to perform work tasks; understands and masters the technical skills, knowledge, and tasks associated with his/her job; shares technical expertise with others
• Driving for Results: Aggressively pursues challenging goals and objectives; will to put in considerable time and effort to accomplish objectives; takes a highly focused, goal driven approach toward work
• Making Accurate Judgments and Decisions: Bases decisions on a systematic review of relevant facts and information; avoids making assumptions or rushing to judgment; provides clear rationale for decisions
• Working with Ambiguity: Achieves forward progress in the face of poorly defined situations and/or unclear goals; able to work effectively with limited or partial information
• Critical Thinking: Skilled at finding logical flaws in arguments and plans; identifies problems and solutions that others might miss; provides detailed insight and constructive criticism into problems and complex situations

 

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• Typically requires 6 to 8 years of experience developing RTL/Digital circuits for ASICs 
• Knowledge of all aspects of SoC design with experience in architecting & designing digital systems from concept, through tape out, post-silicon validation, and production ramp 
• Deep understanding of digital design flow from architecture to in depth knowledge in RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing closure and scan insertion 
• Expertise designing digital circuits, state-machines, serial interfaces, and in integrating IP such as SRAM, OTP, Verilog RT