Digital Design Architect

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About the Job

Are you looking for a career at one of the leading semiconductor companies in the world Texas Instruments (TI) is looking for a Digital Design Engineer to join the team of enthusiastic engineers who develops highly complex mixed signal devices for audio applications with industry leading performance.

These audio products are truly mixed-signal devices with highly integrated digital circuits such as a DSP core for digital filters and audio signal processing blocks, hardware processing blocks, analog controllers, various serial interfaces (Audio serial interfaces, I2C, SPI) and other digital blocks like clock-generation, registers map, Interrupts etc. 

This is a great opportunity to be part of an established team that’s continuing to look for growth opportunities, working with worldwide leading customers and developing cutting edge solutions in the areas of consumer electronics, industrial and automotive markets.

Position                : Digital Design Engineer

Domain                : Consumer Audio Amplifiers and Haptics

Location               : Bangalore

Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's/Master's Degree in EE/ECE

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering.
• ~8 years of Digital design experience.

What can you expect to learn in this role/Opportunity?

• To work with the best experts in the industry.
• To develop capability to work effectively in a technically challenging fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
• To innovate on core technology in design methodologies & influence decisions that have wide business impact across many products & teams.
• To work on cutting edge industry leading products.
• To learn overall product development Process and directly influence the features, differentiation & quality of the product.
• To learn and develop business insights, drive open discussions with business & technology leaders and drive decisions impacting product & technology execution.
• To build strong, influential relationships with domain experts.
• To develop good communication, interpersonal skills while interacting with worldwide cross functional experts.
• To learn identifying risks across domains and adapt to support changing priorities.
• To present analysis and conclusions to internal customers and business leaders in a comprehensive and effective manner.
• To work closely with cross-domain experts other engineers and interns.

Basic Requirement:

• Strong digital design fundamentals and basic electrical/electronic engineering concepts.
• Experience in building RTL micro architectures development.
• Hands on experience in RTL coding.
• Experience with Verilog/VHDL/System Verilog language.
• Should be good knowledge on lint, CDC, RDC, constraint development, synthesis.
• Good understanding of digital timing analysis.
• Expert in using simulation tools (preferably Cadence).
• Basic scripting knowledge using shell/python/perl is preferred.
• Knowledge of audio signal chain, I2C, ASI/TDM, memory architecture and FPGA is preferred.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skill.
• Good communication, presentation skills and teamwork.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and Development of digital logic circuits including signal chain, clocking circuits, fault & interrupt handler, memory management and FPGA.
• Detailed documentation preparation and knowledge sharing of design architecture and implementation with other domains along with conducting Arch and design Reviews
• Work with analog and firmware design domains on integration of system level specification.
• Work closely with other design and systems teams to review/close spec gaps and design bugs, as they arise.
• Handle Design QCs like lint, CDC, RDC
• Developing constraint development and synthesis.
• Support physical design team and work closely on timing closure.
• Support DV and silicon validation team with testplan support, design debugs, root cause analysis and workaround.
• Review verification coverage and sign off on waivers.
• Innovate & drive new and improved methodologies where needed, work with the EDA team to upgrade tools and flows.
• Conducting design reviews and creating the necessary design and product documentation.
• Interacting with Test/Silicon Validation/Application Engineering team to ensure successful use of products and support customer applications debug/analysis.
• Excellent teamwork, adapting to situations and ability to guide, help other team members.
• Communication of design status, issues, and concerns.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills to interact with all stakeholders.
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions.
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results.
• Ability to build strong, influential relationships with cross-functional teams.

Added Advantage:

• Experience/know-how in Physical design concepts.
• Experience in audio signal processing and understanding of audio systems/applications.
• Experience in silicon debug along with silicon validation team.

Preferred Skills/ Experience

• ~8 years of relevant experience