Senior ASIC Designer

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior ASIC Designer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both logic design, with extensive Verilog coding experience, and a good understanding of physical design. This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing ASICs for our next-generation products, ensuring high performance, efficiency, and scalability.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Design and implement complex ASICs using System Verilog 
• Technical oversee of physical design process, including synthesis, floor planning, power grid design, place and route, reset/clock tree synthesis,  design for manufacturability and timing closure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design specifications and requirements.
• Optimize designs for power, performance, and area (PPA).
• Micro-architecture of the modules you will be responsible for
• Micro-architecture documentation.
• Work with verification teams to review the test plans and provide input
• Debug, root cause and fix issues found in the design as part of verification testing based on simulations or FPGA testing.
• Stay abreast of the latest ASIC design technologies and methodologies.

Qualifications

REQUIRED

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in ASIC design, with a strong focus on  logic design and good understanding of physical design
• Proficient in Verilog and System Verilog for RTL design and verification.
• Experience with ASIC design tools and methodologies, including EDA tools for synthesis, place and route, and timing analysis (e.g., Cadence, Synopsys).
• Deep understanding of digital design principles, including FSMs, data path architectures, and low power design techniques.
• Good understanding of physical design and related challenges, such as DFM (Design for Manufacturability), signal integrity, and power integrity.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl for design automation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively to overcome design challenges.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the experience leading projects and mentoring junior designer

SKILLS

• Knowledge of FPGA design and prototyping.
• Experience with analog design integration and mixed-signal design considerations.
• Familiarity with industry standards and protocols relevant to the company's products.
• Participation in silicon bring-up, validation, and debugging
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, RoCE, RDMA Protocols, Ethernet, PCIe, TLS, IPSec and NVMe
• Design Experience with Cryptography, Root of Trust (RoT) items like Secure Boot, Secure Firmware Download, Secure Debug, Authentication and Attestation

Additional Information

to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genet