Digital SoC Expert Designer - Tech Leader

What you will do

• Take responsibility for the design of complex high-performance, low-power SoCs.
• This includes:  
  
  • Understand (internal and external) customer needs, challenges and requirements and translate that into solutions that you can incorporate into your designs. 
  • Contribute to the definition of the IC specification. 
  • Propose design, implementation strategies and plan the work. Manage these tasks over the duration of the project. 
  • Collaborate with system architect team, digital back-end team and embedded SW and validation as well as the other project stakeholders. 
  • Lead RTL development for ASIC. 
  • Supervise the verification planning and activities (possibly including mixed-signal projects). 
• Define and/or propose (new) way of working to maximize the efficiency of the design process. 
• Contribute to high-quality reports and documentation. 

What we do for you

We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world’s premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. With your talent, passion and expertise, you’ll become part of a team that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will determine the society of tomorrow.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and proud of our open, multicultural, and informal working environment with ample possibilities to take initiative and show responsibility. We commit to supporting and guiding you in this process; not only with words but also with tangible actions. Through imec.academy, 'our corporate university', we actively invest in your development to further your technical and personal growth. 

We are aware that your valuable contribution makes imec a top player in its field. Your energy and commitment are therefore appreciated by means of a market appropriate salary with many fringe benefits. 

Who you are

• MSc or PhD in electronics engineering with 10+ years of relevant experience in ASIC design. 
• Solid understanding of digital ASIC-design flow is required: logic synthesis, timing analysis, power estimation/simulation, logic equivalence, STA (DFT and/or P&R is preferred). 
• Structural way of working and ability to develop and manage activity planning is required. 
• Experience working closely with (internal or external) stakeholders is required. 
• Strong experience with digital circuit design in (System) Verilog is required. 
• Experience with SoC top level design and/or sub-systems is required; including low power techniques. 
• Experience with digital verification is preferred: plan definition, verification methodologies, code/functional coverage, constrained random verification, verification plan execution and tracking. 
• Knowledge of high-level synthesis methodologies is a plus. 
• Experience with Cadence IC design tools is preferred. 
• Knowledge of the FPGA-development flow is a plus. 
• Experience with scripting languages like TCL, Matlab and Python is required. 
• Experience with revisioning systems, like git is required. 
• Able to take initiative and responsibility for team’s success. Thinking pro-actively, working independently and having a creative problem-solving attitude. 
• Have broad interest across disciplines and like to embrace new challenges. 
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken). 

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