Principal/Staff Memory Circuit Design Engineer

• Contribute in all parts of Product Memory development flow, starting at design spec
• Understand Memory design and development, analyze memory marginality in advance technology(28nm and below)
• Understand and perform circuit design, memory characterization, and related verifications needed for the memories to work seamlessly in CPUs and SOCs
• Experiment with and evaluate new memory architectures and methodologies
• Work with other key designers to continually define, improve and develop memory infrastructure and methods
• Ensure high quality and high performance memory designs with the lowest possible power as needed for ARM CPUs, GPUs, and SOCs
• Lead small teams of circuit and layout designers throughout the entire memory development process
• Provide mentoring and leadership to other designers on the team
• Define and drive improvements in the memory development infrastructure and flows
• Work with project management to define schedule and highlight risks and issues. Interact with customers as needed throughout the course of the memory development

Job

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant circuit design experience(for BSEE)
• A minimum of 6 years of relevant circuit design experience(for MSEE)
• Memory circuit design experience
• Circuit/Layout experience with deep submicron technologies(28nm or smaller)
• Fundamental understanding of technology tradeoffs in deep sub-micron design
• Fundamental understanding of Design for Manufacturability(DFM) layout techniques
• Experience in low power circuit techniques
• Experience leading small teams to develop high performance, low power memories
• Experience mentoring other engineers
• Experience defining and driving key methodologies for high performance, low power memory development

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Experience with simulator tools, Spectre, HSPICE, MMSIM, Finesim, etc.
• Be familiar with layout automation tools as well as physical verification tools like Calibre and Hercules
• Be familiar with the other EDA tools such as Design Compiler, IC Compiler, PrimeTime, SoC Encounter, Pacific, Nanosim, Pathmill, etc.
• Programming or scripting experience