Job Description:
At Cirrus Logic, mixed-signal engineering drives our company. We develop high-performance, low-power signal processing solutions in audio, voice and haptics, delivering innovative end-user experiences and solving difficult challenges for new generations of mobile and consumer devices. While breaking the innovation barrier, we've also built an award-winning company culture, thanks to our extraordinary workforce and our ongoing efforts to champion and promote diversity, as well as our principles of equality and fairness in the workplace. Do you enjoy working alongside the industry's top engineers and solving sophisticated challenges for the world's top consumer brands? Join our team and help us continue to make this an exceptional place to work!
As a Digital Design Engineer, you will be part of a collaborative team developing high-performance mixed-signal integrated circuits, including delta-sigma ADC's and DAC's, amplifiers, DC/DC converters, and other circuitry in advanced CMOS processes. You will play a meaningful role in developing next-generation devices and ensuring that leading consumer electronics manufacturers can easily integrate our devices into their products.
Responsibilities
- You will work in a collaborative environment to build and engineer digital design subsystems from architecture through tape-out
- You will model control loop feedback and signal processing algorithms using tools such as Matlab and Simulink
- You will convert digital subsystems into real-world final designs for integration into the final product
- As part of a team, you will support tape-out and post-silicon activities including validation, characterization, and production test
- You will be responsible for design, development, and Verilog RTL coding for a variety of digital IP blocks for high-performance mixed-signal ICs
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of proven professional experience in digital system design engineering
- Experience coding in Verilog RTL language
- Deep understanding of the digital design flow from architecture through RTL design, verification, and synthesis
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- Solid understanding of high-level modeling tools like Simulink, Matlab, or similar
- Experience designing and verifying complex state-machines that are incorporated into our mixed-signal designs
- Expertise in mixed-signal design, simulation, and verification
- Experience with back-end flow including synthesis, place and route, and timing analysis
- Experience generating functional test vectors for PTE
- Basic understanding of CMOS transistors
- Hands-on lab test/debug experience during pre and/or post silicon validation with scopes, logic analyzers, in circuit emulators and other lab equipment
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Understanding of control theory and discrete time, z-domain, signal processing techniques
- Familiarity with FIR and IIR filter design
This position is located in Austin, TX
Cirrus Logic is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We strive to select the best qualified applicant for any opening and to reward employees based on their skills, experience and performance. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, pregnancy status, marital status, gender, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.