Staff Digital Design Engineer

## Job Description Renesas Electronics is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Digital Design Engineer to join our growing hardware development team in Chandler, AZ. In this role, you will be responsible for designing power and area-optimized digital circuits for complex mixed-signal applications. **Job Purpose & Dimensions:** · Interpret high level requirements to architect, design & integrate low-power digital circuits for mixed-signal data conversion and power management products in advanced process nodes. · Support full product lifecycle from concept to mass-production; communicating closely with wider organization through the various stages of silicon development. · Provide technical leadership & influence to the digital design team by contributing to technical discussions & reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and supporting recruitment. · Work closely with Analog and Verification engineers to deliver high-quality silicon solutions. **Responsibilities:** · Ensuring digital development process is state-of-art and achieves budget, schedule, and project deliverable goals. · Designing digital RTL that meets timing, area, power and any adhering standards specifications. · Integrating design at the top level and running block & top-level simulations. · Participate in all aspects of Mixed-signal design flow - Micro-architecture, Design partitioning, RTL Verilog / System Verilog Design, Generating Timing Constraints, Synthesis, Interaction with P&R Team, Timing Analysis, LINT, CDC, RDC, UPF. · Working closely with P&R team to generate a layout that meets timing, area, and power requirements. · Support DFT strategy and implementation, and review test case development. · Assisting with top level test-bench debug, and running RTL & gate level simulations · Working with analog and digital verification engineers to come up with complex test scenarios for pre-silicon verification. · Supporting analog team to develop AMS, System Verilog or Verilog-real behavioral models. · Developing detailed block & chip level design documents and collateral. · Holding and participating in key design reviews and completion of various checklists. · Perform silicon evaluation as required. · Document device errata, develop work-around solutions, implement engineering changes when necessary. ## Qualifications · >10 years of digital design experience in one of the following areas: wireless handheld, data conversion, and power management. · Degree-level qualification in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline. · Fluent in Verilog / SystemVerilog RTL for digital CMOS circuit design. · Strong understanding of ASIC design methodology. · Strong understanding of Lint, CDC & RDC tools. · Strong understanding of block-level & chip-level verification techniques. · Strong & proven ability to debug both RTL & gate-level simulations. · Mandatory competence in written and verbal English. · Willingness to travel domestically or internationally on short notice. · Ability to work independently and collaboratively. · Preferred: experience with Digital Signal Processing (DSP) concepts and hardware realizations. · Preferred: experience with methodology and flow automation using appropriate scripting. · Preferred: experience with mixed-signal design methodologies. · Preferred: experience developing design constraints and hand-off to P&R. · Preferred: experience with STA and timing closure. · Preferred: experience with low-power design techniques, including clock and power gating (UPF). · Preferred: experience with power analysis and optimization. · Preferred: experience with advanced verification methodologies (UVM). · Preferred: experience with industry-standard protocols such as AMBA or I2C. ## Additional Information Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘**To Make Our Lives Easier**.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and…