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Digital SoC expert designer - Technical leader(temporary assignment)
Research & development - Leuven | More than two weeks ago
We need you as a Technical Leader - Digital IC Design to be part of our multidisciplinary team to: Take responsibility for the design of high-performance, ultra-low-power digital signal processing modules. This includes: Understand (internal and external) customer needs, challenges and requirements and translate that into solutions that you can incorporate into your designs. Propose signal processing digital architectures and 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.
Digital SoC expert designer - Technical leader (consultant)
Take responsibility for the design of high-performance, ultra-low-power digital signal processing modules
The assignment / De opdracht
- 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 and FPGA. 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.
Required knowledge and skills / Vereiste kennis en skills
- 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).
What we offer / Wat bieden wij
We offer you an exciting temporary assignment in which you will be part of a community that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will define the society of tomorrow.
- Duration of the assignment: 6 months
- Desired start date: asap
- Work regime: fultime
Location/ Locatie
We provide the flexibility to work both from our office premises and remotely from home. This to maintain a healthy work-life balance while being an integral part of our team.
Please note that a 100% remote job is NOT possible, you need to be able to come onsite 3x/week in imec Leuven (Belgium).
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*For this temporary position, you can apply as a candidate, the employment is then through an employment agency or other third party. If you are a Freelancer (independent consultant) we also welcome your application.