Senior Memory Design Engineer

  • Ottawa
  • Ir Search Bv

Our customer is a leader in the semiconductor industry, producing the chips that are found in smart phones, tablets, computers, smart TVs, cars, laptops, games consoles, and many more products.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will join a world class design team. Their primary responsibility will be to suggest architectures, optimize circuits, maximize for the best balance of power, performance and area possible in advanced process nodes. This includes the circuit design, analog simulation, functional verification, cell characterization, transistor level implementation, optimization, netlisting, flow scripting, design verification, database QC and working closely with colleagues in layout.

Requirements

  • MSc EE or PhD EE graduate.
  • MSc EE plus 7 years of proven track record delivering working memory design.
  • Experienced in advanced process circuit design preferred (e.g. 16nm/10nm/7nm).
  • A good knowledge of semiconductor physics, circuit theory and CMOS circuit implementation. Experience with FinFET technologies an advantage.
  • In-depth knowledge of CMOS logic design and analog transistor level optimization
  • In-depth understanding of full-custom layout generation and its impact on circuit performance is essential. Ability to work with Layout engineers to produce optimal physical implementations.
  • Proficiency with modern IC design tools both Schematic Capture; Analog and Digital simulators; Behavioral modeling; Functional & Timing Validation, IR/EM Analysis; Physical Verification tools DRC, LVS and Extraction; Compilers; Database management.
  • Scripting and programming skills to help automate complex design tasks and flows (e.g. skilled with Linux scripting and knowledge of s/w languages like Perl is an advantage)
  • Ethical, Goal orientated; Excellent quality; Committed to the schedule
  • Team player; Good communicator; High integrity; Calm under pressure
  • Innovative
  • Fluent in English. French language skills very welcome.

Are you ready for your next career move?

For information please contact Anton van Rossum on +31-6-53-306-309 or/ and anton.van.rossum@ir-search.nl.