Senior Digital Design Engineer

Business Unit Description

AI Chip 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, Display Controller, high-speed serial links, cores, memory controllers, 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 versus design 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 quality

Cross-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 verification

Job Qualifications:

Minimum BSEE/BSCE/BSCS

Minimum 4 years of 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 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

More information about NXP in the United States...

NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

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