R-10038434 RTL Design Engineer

Company: NXP Semiconductors
Location: Austin
Posted on: August 6, 2022

Job Description:

THIS POSITION IS LOCATED IN AUSTIN, TX. HYBRID WORK SCHEDULE AND LOTS OF FLEXIBILITY. UNLIMITED PAID TIME OFF. PAID MATERNITY AND PATERNITY LEAVE. RELOCATION AND VISA SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE TO THOSE ALREADY IN THE US. Business Unit DescriptionMCU/MPU Engineering Digital IP team defines and develops components for a wide range of products, including automotive microprocessors, application processors, microcontrollers, and networking. The Austin Digital IP team develops components for DDR, Ethernet, high-speed serial links, cores, caches, and interconnect.Job Summary:

• Review IP architecture specifications, features and programming model, microarchitecture and interface specifications.
• Plan IP documentation and design, including providing schedule assessments.
• Design IP meeting requirements for quality and performance, using Verilog and System Verilog RTL, and vendor and internal checking tools.
• Collaborate with verification team to develop test plans and complete verification execution to 100% coverage, and as per NXP standard quality and maturity standards.
• Deliver completed IP, including RTL design and supporting documentation
• Track metrics during IP development, include development plan milestones, code and functional coverage, defect tickets, and tracing of requirements versusdesign specification.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide expert support to subsystem, SoC, validation, and applications engineering teams during product development.Key challenges:
    • Proving design meets all requirements and ensuring zero defects escape to silicon.
    • Meeting committed schedules without compromising qualityCross-functional aspects:
      • Definition reviews with architecture teams and designers
      • Planning with verification team, architecture team, and project manager
      • Integration of digital IP, working with local and global SoC front-end design teams
      • Support for local customers on IP, subsystem and SoC verification teams, emulation and silicon validation teams
      • Support for applications engineers and end-customers to replicate and identify root cause field failures, and identify workarounds.
      • Collaborate with local and global verification and tools development teams in developing improved methods of verificationJob Qualifications:
        • BSEE/BSCE/BSCS
        • 8-10 years experience in IP or SoC design
        • Knowledge of SoC architecture required
        • Expert knowledge of Verilog required
        • Experience with design quality checks, including Lint, clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, static timing analysis (STA)
        • Expert knowledge of Arm AMBA bus protocol standards desired
        • Knowledge of PCI Express or Ethernet strongly desired
        • Knowledge of functional safety, including ISO26262 a plus
        • Knowledge of CPU or cache architecture a plus
        • Knowledge of C coding a plus
        • Knowledge of scripting, such as Perl or Python, a plus

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