Senior Digital Design Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Digital IC Design Engineer to join our growing design and development team in Edinburgh. You will work within our High-Performance Mixed-Signal R&D division, which develops industry-leading SoCs for global consumer markets. You will be part of an organisation operating at the forefront of cutting-edge technology.

Key Responsibilities:

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

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s, Master's or Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering (or related discipline) 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
• 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
• Lab and silicon validation skills; Experience of chip bring-up and debug from design perspective
• Good understanding of Linting, CDC and RDC tools
• Collaboration with DFT and Place and Route teams
• 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, RISC-V, or similar microcontrollers as well as memory controllers
• DSP filter design using MATLAB and signal analysis techniques