Digital Design Engineer (AP)

Cirrus Logic is seeking highly skilled Digital IC Design Engineers to join product development teams within the successful High performance mixed-signal R&D division, responsible for developing industry leading SOCs for global consumer mobile markets. In return, we offer an incredible work culture where individual value is key, along with personal/professional development dictated by you. Working at the forefront of technology, this role is based in our Edinburgh office.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a team of engineers with responsibility for the delivery of complex mixed-signal products and IPs
• Design and develop new digital circuit architectures on advanced process nodes including development of block level testbenches
• Contribute to technical reviews and ensure IP quality using checklists
• Influence the growth of the group through recruitment, mentoring, review, and supervision of junior engineers.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s, Master's or Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering and/or equivalent with an extensive proven background in digital CMOS circuit design
• Implementation of complex digital circuits and sub-systems in RTL using Verilog / SystemVerilog
• Understanding of digital system-level design, including use of standard bus protocols, bus architecture design and chip-level clock and reset architectures.
• Verification of block-level digital designs
• Understanding of synthesis and timing analysis of digital circuits; collaboration with DFT and Place and Route team
• Good understanding of Linting, CDC and RDC tools
• Good interpersonal skills, share technical expertise and knowledge, contribute to design reviews, work optimally to resolve conflicts.
• Organised, detailed, and meticulous with strong communication skills.
• Self-motivated with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work with a sense of urgency and thrive in a dynamic environment.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• An understanding, appreciation, and passion for mixed signal engineering
• Experience working within UVM based verification environments.
• Scripting and automation of design tasks
• Experience with AMBA, SPI, I2C protocols
• Experience of targeting industry standard FPGA platforms
• DSP filter design using MATLAB and signal analysis techniques.
• Lab and silicon validation skills; Experience of chip bring-up and debug from design perspective.
• Board level interface standards and interface design
• Experience with clock generation circuits and handling multiple clock domains.
• Experience with Power gating and low power design techniques
• Experience with ARM, 8051 microcontrollers as well as memory controllers