pSemi Corporation is a Murata company driving semiconductor integration. pSemi builds on Peregrine Semiconductor's 30-year legacy of technology advancements and strong IP portfolio but with a new mission-to enhance Murata's world-class capabilities with high-performance semiconductors. With a strong foundation in RF integration, pSemi's product portfolio now spans power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF frontends. These intelligent and efficient semiconductors enable advanced modules for smartphones, base stations, personal computers, electric vehicles, data centers, IoT devices and healthcare. From headquarters in San Diego and offices around the world, pSemi's team explores new ways to make electronics for the connected world smaller, thinner, faster and better.

Position can be in:

San Diego, CA
Austin, TX

Job Summary

This position is for a Senior Digital Engineer in the Digital Engineering team within a mixed signal RF, analog and digital product Engineering Department. This engineer's primary responsibility is to support pSemi Product Development teams by designing, verifying, assisting with characterization, and testing digital functions at the block, subsystem, and IC level. This includes all aspects of development including specification review, Verilog/SystemVerilog RTL arch/micro-arch design, simulation, verification, and debug. Knowledge of design for test, fault coverage, and generation of test vectors for production, characterization, and life cycle is also required. This position requires scripting and software skills to develop or enhance productivity tools, familiarity with IC design techniques, and understanding of CMOS transistor level design is also required.

The individual must have demonstrated experience in system architecture and circuit analysis, design, test, product development, and mass production product releases. As part of a cross-functional product development team the candidate will support other essential disciplines including marketing and applications, project management, characterization, test engineering, and production.

Good communications skills for interfacing with product development, test, process, and reliability engineers is also required. Ability to take a vague concept and turn it into a design specification is also desired.

Roles & Responsibilities

This position has responsibility for:

• Provide architectural guidance to IC definition and specification
• Design using Verilog/SystemVerilogRTL
• Understanding of Design Verification
• Front end support (Synthesis, Timing closure, DFT)
• Digital Characterization test programs and data analysis
• Support ATE test vector generation, Silicon Validation.
• Assisting in failure analysis

Competency Requirements

In order to perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Critical Thinking: Skilled at finding logical flaws in arguments and plans; identifies problems and solutions that others might miss; provides detailed insight and constructive criticism into problems and complex situations
• Working with Ambiguity: Achieves forward progress in the face of poorly defined situations and/or unclear goals; able to work effectively with limited or partial information
• Displaying Technical Expertise: Keeps his/her technical skills current; effectively applies specialized knowledge and skills to perform work tasks; understands and masters the technical skills, knowledge, and tasks associated with his/her job; shares technical expertise with others
• Driving for Results: Aggressively pursues challenging goals and objectives; will to put in considerable time and effort to accomplish objectives; takes a highly focused, goal driven approach toward work
• Making Accurate Judgments and Decisions: Bases decisions on a systematic review of relevant facts and information; avoids making assumptions or rushing to judgment; provides clear rationale for decisions

Minimum Qualifications (Experience and Skills)

• Typically requires 3 to 5 years of experience developing RTL/Digital circuits for ASICs
• Knowledge of all aspects of SoC design with experience in architecting & designing digital systems from concept, through tape out, post-silicon validation, and production ramp
• Deep understanding of digital design flow from architecture to in depth knowledge in RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing closure and scan insertion
• Expertise designing digital circuits, state-machines, serial interfaces, and in integrating IP such as SRAM, OTP, Verilog RTL, in the context of cost-effective digital IP targeted to mixed-signal silicon products
• Knowledge of design verification techniques
• Familiarity with serial interface standards such as SPI or I2C
• Familiarity with Place and Route tools
• Experience with Cadence or Synopsys tool suite. (Synthesis, Place and Route, STA, CDC, Low power, DFT) Simulation with AMS a plus
• Software programming ability in high level languages such as C or Visual Basic as well as scripting languages such as Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of DSP, delta-sigma modulators, decimation/interpolation filters
• Experience implementing industry standard serial communication protocols, such as I2C and SPI
• Experience with Standard Cell Library development and characterization
• Experience handling test equipment such as oscilloscopes, function generators, DVMs
• Ability to work in a fast paced, multi-tasking environment
• Excellent verbal/written communication and presentation skills

Education Requirements

• Masters or Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering or equivalent experience; Masters degree preferred

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

$118,496.5 - $154,054.00 per year

pSemi Corporation supports a diverse workforce and is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees. pSemi does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions or breastfeeding), gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver's license issued under Vehicle Code section 12801.9), ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally-protected medical condition, military or veteran status (including "protected veterans" under applicable affirmative action laws), marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state or federal laws applicable to the Company. pSemi also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an employee or applicant has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Note: The Peregrine Semiconductor name, Peregrine Semiconductor logoand UltraCMOS are registered trademarks and the pSemi name, pSemi logo, HaRP andDuNE are trademarks of pSemi Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. pSemi products are protected under one or more of the following U.S. Patents: