Senior Digital Designer

Our Mission

Blackrock Neurotech is 100% focused on improving human lives through neuroscience research and technology. The passion and dedication behind this mission has nurtured a dynamic, enjoyable and fulfilling corporate environment in which learning, and growth are commonplace. We operate in an innovative field that requires our staff to meet the highest standards. Every step of the way, we encourage one another by providing continuous motivation and promoting a healthy work environment.

Disclosure

In order to provide a safe and productive work environment, all offers of employment at Blackrock Neurotech are contingent upon a thorough background check. A criminal history will not automatically disqualify a candidate from an offer of employment.

Job Title: Senior Digital DesignerDepartment:   BCIJob Type: Full-TimeLocation: Salt Lake City POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Senior Digital Designer engineer will work on novel state of the art BCI systems featuring custom ASICs. The Senior Digital Designer engineer will support the design of the ASIC and will collaborate with the ASIC AMS designers/manufacturing teams/ and system level engineers during R&D to ensure successful tapeouts.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• PhD in electrical engineering or computer engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in physical design and ASIC design. 

IDEAL COMPETENCIES

• Strong experience in digital ASIC design tools like Siemens/Synopsys/Cadence.
• Strong RTL skills in Verilog, system Verilog, and VHDL
• Strong programming skills in C/C++, Python and/or Matlab
• Strong scripting skill in TCL, Perl, Makefile for automation tasks. 
• Strong debugging skills.
• Extensive experience in designing various complex SoC blocks including NoCs, CPUs, communications and hardware accelerators.
• Knowledge in ASIC design flow from spec to test and validation.
• Knowledge in active interposer assembly.
• Knowledge in FPGA design and implementation
• Knowledge in microcontroller programming 
• Knowledge in digital signal processing
• Knowledge in medical devices.

 ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES

• Work with neuro scientists and drive hardware accelerated signal processing IP priority strategy.
• Model and provide performance estimations of the hardware implementation of the IP.
• Collaborate with digital designers to ensure proper integration of the IPs within SoC architectures.
• Design and verify the IPs.
• Top-level verification of the IPs. 

 Physical and other requirements

• Ability to work in an office setting. 
• Sitting and standing while typing.