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Principal Applications Engineer
Not specifiedFull-timeSystems IntegrationSemiconductor Manufacturing
Provide customer-facing engineering support for integrating memory and interface IP into ASIC and SoC designs, from design-flow reviews through silicon bring-up. The role works across customer teams and internal engineering groups, with occasional travel to customer sites.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and hands-on support to customers integrating memory subsystem IP into ASIC and SoC designs.
- Conduct integration reviews at customer milestones and troubleshoot issues throughout the SoC design flow.
- Help resolve issues involving RTL simulation, synthesis, floorplanning, timing closure, and silicon or system bring-up.
- Support silicon bring-up and characterization in system environments.
- Document best practices, write application notes, and deliver customer training.
- Share customer feedback with cross-functional teams and contribute to product improvements.
- Stay current with interface protocols and industry standards; travel occasionally to customer sites for support, reviews, and bring-up.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience in IP design, ASIC/SoC integration, or related customer-facing engineering; exceptional candidates with strong silicon-debug experience and an academic background may also be considered.
- Strong understanding of ASIC design flows, including simulation and verification, RTL synthesis, floorplanning, physical design, and timing closure.
- Hands-on experience integrating and validating IP.
- Ability to debug RTL and gate-level simulations; familiarity with Design Compiler, Fusion Compiler, and PrimeTime.
- Experience with silicon bring-up and system-level characterization in a laboratory.
- Knowledge of memory subsystem design and DDR/LPDDR protocol implementation flows.
Nice to have
- Strong silicon-debug experience or an academic background may be considered in place of the stated experience requirement.