Emulation & Prototyping Methodology & Automation Expert
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Job Location:
San Diego, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 158900 - 218500
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As an Emulation & Prototyping Methodology & Automation Expert in our Advanced Chip Engineering (ACE) organization you will work in a dynamic environment to develop methodology flows and tools to improve efficiency and quality of results for enabling pre-silicon emulation and prototyping platforms for SoC and IP verification validation and software teams across the organization. Youll be a technical lead working closely with other domain experts in architecture IP/SoC design verification validation and SW teams to architect design and develop state-of-the-artmethodology and automation for emulation & prototyping by applying your VLSI emulation & prototyping experience programming skills and leveraging existing internal and external EDA SW tools and libraries.
This opportunity is within ACE Design Methodologies and Automation organization a cross-functional team responsible for developing methodology and automation to improve efficiency and quality of results for end-to-end design verification emulation and implementation of the IP Sub-Systems and SoCs for the Automotive Processors and Advanced microcontrollers in NXP.
The right candidate will be working in a fast-paced engineering environment on a leading-edge advanced node technologies enabling automated building of exciting and complex SoCs.
In this role you will work in close collaboration with Architecture IP design SoC Design Verification Implementation and Design Enablement teams to drive new ways of working improvements to current ways of working addressing design quality challenges and continuously improve NXP Semiconductors emulation and prototyping flows. While developing these new ways of working successful candidates will be working on actual designs and implementation to pilot and develop the automation. Successful candidates will utilize their extensive experience in emulation & prototyping methodology VLSI CAD Software development to identify organizational needs and deliver creative solutions based on those needs.
Job Description:
Work closely with Architecture teams IP and SoC designers and SoC Implementation teams from multiple sites to develop advanced methodology and automation for emulation prototyping to enable pre-si validation and SW development
These automation applications span over design flow automation design optimization regression systems design database etc.
Develop/manage multiple automations based on various SW languages and frameworks
Learn enhance and support existing products
Strong software and CAD background required
Cross functional aspects:
In this role the candidate will work with multiple NXP Engineering teams including Architecture IP & SoC design verification and emulation functions coordinate and drive groundbreaking initiatives and new ways of working.
Qualifications
BS or MS in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related disciplines with strong background in SW development
Strong background and experience with emulation platforms like Veloce Zebu Palladium
Deep understanding of FPGA prototyping using Xilinx FPGAs
10 years of experience in developing complex SW projects and hands-on expertise in programming using Python & C
Hands on experience in Unix/Linux revision control (Git BitBucket) SW development and debug tools
Good understanding of HDL: System Verilog Verilog VHDL front-end design emulation and FPGA Place & Route flows and tools
Excellent analytical problem-solving skills
Strong understanding of design layout constraints (SDC Clocks CDC RDC) Static timing analysis Low-power and Power-aware flows (UPF)
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Desirable skills/experience:
Data structures algorithms and SW development for optimization problems
Prior experience in VLSI CAD methodology and tool development
Experience with Design revision control (GIT DesignSync) and Make
Splunk Jenkins LSF and CI/CD process
Job location:
San Diego CA
The base salary range for this position is as mentioned below per year. We also provide competitive benefits incentive compensation and/or equity for certain roles.
Company benefits include health. dental and vision insurance. 401(k) and paid leave. Please note that the base salary range (OR hourly rate) is a guideline and individual total compensation may vary based on a number of factors such as qualifications skill level work location and other business and organizational needs. This base pay range is specific to California and is not applicable to other locations. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range as of the date of this posting is:
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NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age color national origin race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital status status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
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Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- APIs
- Automotive software
- Test Cases
- Electrical Engineering
- Junit
- Distributed Control Systems
- Testng
- Java
- Test Automation
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Selenium
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