Principal/Staff Memory Circuit Design Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

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 Requirements:

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