1) Analog Design Engineer
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES IN ADDITION TO THOSE IN JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Design high speed analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits within custom chips for the hard disk drive industry
- Work directly with customers to determine system requirements, write specifications and guide customers in the use of pre-amplifier products
- Use high speed electronic characterization equipment to evaluate and debug the functionality of the design once the part is fabricated in silicon
- Provide technical leadership through all phases of product development including test, yield, characterization, reliability analysis, qualification and release to manufacturing
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
LSI's Storage Peripherals Group is looking for an experienced custom analog IC designer to join the pre-amplifier design team. At LSI we are committed to innovation and industry leadership. We develop advanced high-speed magneto electronic read/write IC architectures as the basis for our products.
Design team members define, create and modify high-speed custom integrated circuits for hard disk drive (HDD) products using leading edge CMOS and SiGe BiCMOS technologies. Team members support the entire product life cycle beginning with design and moving through test, qualification, release to production and ramp to volume.
- Degree in Electrical Engineering (or related field), MS required, Ph.D. preferred
- Minimum three to five years experience in discrete, transistor level analog circuit design
- Experience with analog and mixed signal IC product design, integration and verification is required
- Strong physical layout knowledge and parasitic component understanding essential
- Process and device physics knowledge critical
- Proven skills using electronic measurement equipment in a lab environment
- Expertise in applied magnetism and recording a strong plus
2) Senior Design Verification Engineer
3) Physical Design Engineer
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES IN ADDITION TO THOSE IN JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Duties will include working within a Product Development Team to work on leading edge ASIC solutions in full custom and SoC environments.
- Design IC devices in conformance with both LSI and customer requirements and sound design principles;
- Place and route(layout) of integrated circuits to meet design requirements;
- Prepare project evaluations in conformance with company policies/procedures;
- Provide CAD assistance to customer engineers and new staff as required and/or requested;
- Keep up-to-date with all technical memos;
- Attend peer reviews and provide feedback to ensure success of peer designs. Ideal candidate will have experience/exposure to ASIC and full custom high-speed digital flows from design handoff
through manufacturing, and with strong timing analysis capabilities.
- Excellent communication skills are needed, as the existing team spans multiple locations.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum of 4-6 years experience in Physical Design in a product development environment
- Proven physical design experience
- Expertise in circuit design, place and routing, signal integrity, power analysis, CTS design, DFT,
design rule and connectivity verification
- Good analytical and debugging skills
- Extremely disciplined in conducting checks and audits
- Must be technically adept, a strong team player, ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to interact intelligently and politely with customers
- Desired: Familiarity with analog physical design, manufacturing and IC packaging; Past experience in a lead position giving guidance to other engineers
Education/Certifications
Required Degree: BS
Preferred Degree: MS
Preferred Major: Electrical Engineering or related discipline
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES IN ADDITION TO THOSE IN JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Duties will include working within a Product Development Team to develop reusable block-level and ASIC test benches using HVL.
- Develop new ASIC verification environments to support ASIC development.
- Maintain existing ASIC verification environments.
- Review RTL architectural and implementation specifications.
- Create stimulus drivers, monitors, dataflow models, and test plans to verify function and performance of advanced multiprotocol networking ASICs.
- Define and develop application tests required to verify ASICs meet functional and performance goals.
- Define and implement functional coverage plans.
- Define and implement code coverage plans.
- Develop testing and regression methodologies for new verification flow.
- Coordinate test plan implementation and regressions with remote team.
- Incorporate reusability into all aspects of the verification environment.
- Develop/maintain/enhance environment tools/scripts/makefiles.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum of 4-6 years ASIC Verification experience in a product development environment
- Proven ASIC Design Verification skills
- Fluent in Verilog for design verification
- Experience with Specman or System Verilog
- Knowledge of data and telecommunication networking(TDM/IP/ATM/Ethernet)
- Experience with one or more scripting languages: awk, Perl, python
- Superior debugging skills for large ASIC designs
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Adaptable to evolving customer requirement
- Desired: Past experience in a lead position giving guidance to other engineers; Experience with C/C++
Education/Certifications
Required Degree: BS
Preferred Degree: MS
Preferred Major: Electrical Engineering or related discipline