Layout Design Engineer, Staff

• Requires a MSc in Electrical or Computer Engineering (or equivalent) with solid background on transistor level and 5+ years working experience in layout circuit design.
• Possesses knowledge in deep submicron CMOS technologies
• Exercises good judgment in selecting efficient/robust methods and techniques to layout floorplan and validation.
• Design for porting (i.e. design to enable ease moving layout across multiple foundry nodes)
• Knowledge of signal integrity issues and techniques to mitigate ESD, latch-up (i.e. clock/data routes, differential routing, shielding, well distance, substrate biasing)
• Familiarity with custom digital layout (i.e. high_speed digital paths)
• Knowledge of layout effects and design for reliability (i.e. matching, reliability, proximity effects, EM, IR, etc.)
• Good written and verbal communication skills and problem-solving skills.
• Builds productive internal/external working relationships. Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
• Contacts are primarily within business unit and occasional organizational and external customer contacts on routine matters.
• Has familiarity with UNIX operating systems and IC design tools.
• Good at problem solving. Presents critical judgement
• Good written and verbal English communication skills
• Organizational skills are essential
• Self-motivated personality

• Familiarity with layout of analog and mixed signal CMOS circuits
• Contributed to the development of complex layout integrated circuits.
• Knowledgeable about signal integrity (ie. clock/data routes, differential routing, shielding)
• Implementation of ESD design constraints, latch-up risk mitigation
• Layout design for reliability (ie. EM, IR, etc…)
• Design to optimize for parasitic layout effects (ie. matching, reliability, proximity effects, etc…)

• Knowledge on Synopsys EDA tools
• Familiar with Unix and scripting languages (TCL, Python)

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