Digital Design Engineer
Challenges are our drive, innovation our calling. We at Kandou are a team of passionate accomplished professionals making a mark in the semiconductor industry. We're an innovative leader in high-speed and energy efficient chip-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics industry, continuously developing to meet the demands of not just the customers of today, but of tomorrow too. If you love to be part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.We are actively seeking a resourceful Digital Design Engineer, based in either UK (Reading/Northampton), Germany, Denmark or Lausanne, Switzerland.Key responsibilities
- Definition of block-level specifications of high-speed digital circuits that meet key performance targets based on system-level requirements.
- Review and challenge architectural specification.
- Analog/digital interface specification in close cooperation with analog/mixed-signal designers.
- 3rd party IPs integration.
- RTL design and testing.
- Close interaction with verification and physical implementation engineers to verify circuit functionality and compliance with area, timing and power requirements.
- Support for post-silicon lab bring-up, debug, characterization and productization.
- Support and interaction with customers on requirements, design specifications, performance results and product delivery.
- Manage workload and schedules and report to internal management team and external customers.
Skills
- Strong analytical skills to translate system-level requirements into design.
- Knowledge and design experience of high-speed protocols (e.g. USB4, PCIe, DisplayPort)
- Strong RTL coding skills (SystemVerilog preferred).
- Advanced knowledge of high-speed and low-power design techniques.
- Knowledge of PCIe physical layer is an advantage.
- Scripting (Python preferred) and tool setup skills.
- Good understanding of CDC issues and techniques.
- Familiarity with analyzing synthesis and STA results.
- Understanding of verification methodologies, in particular UVM, is an advantage.
- Self-motivated, with strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
- Good communicator and team player.
Experience
- MSc in electronics/electrical engineering (equivalent or higher).
- 5+ years’ experience in the semiconductor industry.
- Strong technical background in design of high-speed digital circuits in deep-submicron CMOS technologies.
- Familiarity with PCIe protocol is highly desirable.
- Experience with analog/digital control interfaces is valuable.
- Exposure to Cadence tools is valuable.
If this is the role you have been looking for and you want to be part of a growing Company, with an exciting future then we would really love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!
