Senior Principal Digital IC Designer
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Job Summary
NXP Semiconductors is seeking a Senior Principal Digital IC Designer to provide toplevel technical leadership in the development of complex mixedsignal integrated circuits for automotive and industrial electrification applications.
The role is positioned at the highest technical level and requires deep expertise in digital IC design strong systemlevel understanding and the ability to influence architectural and methodological decisions across multiple products and programs.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Act as a companylevel technical reference for digital IC design within the electrification domain
- Define review and approve digital architectures for complex mixedsignal ICs
- Drive key architectural tradeoffs across performance power safety testability and cost
- Drive and support digital verification team
- Establish and maintain digital design best practices and standards
Product and Portfolio Scope
- Provide technical guidance across multiple concurrent programs
- Contribute to product definition and longterm technology roadmap
- Promote reuse and scalability of digital architectures and IPs across platforms
- Interface with system architects product line management and application teams on technical topics
Design Execution and Quality
- Develop and oversee RTL design synthesis integration and signoff activities
- Review and approve:
- RTL implementations
- Design documentation and specifications
- Signoff results (timing power CDC DFT)
- Support silicon bringup debug activities and rootcause analysis on first silicon and production issues
- Understanding UVM and digital verification methodology
SafetyCritical Design
- Ensure compliance with automotive quality and safety standards.
- Drive the definition and evaluation of digital safety mechanisms
- Support safety analyses and reviews in collaboration with functional safety teams
Mentoring and Knowledge Transfer
- Mentor and technically guide Digital Designers
- Actively contribute to competence development within the organization
- Share expertise across teams and international sites
Required Skills
- Masters or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 15 years of experience in digital IC design
- Proven experience operating at Principal or Senior Principal technical level
- Expert knowledge of:
- RTL design (SystemVerilog / Verilog)
- Complex digital architectures and controloriented designs
- Multiclock multi-power and reset strategies
- Synthesis constraints
- DFT concepts (ATPG BIST coverage)
- Strong experience in mixedsignal IC environments
- Solid understanding of automotive and safetycritical design methodologies
- Handson experience with industrystandard EDA tools (Matlab Synopsys Cadence Siemens)
- Fluent written and spoken English
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with automotive or industrial electrification ICs (BMS gate drivers power management)
- Familiarity with Digital Signal Processing
- Experience influencing technical direction beyond a single project or team
- International R&D experience
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Graphic Design
- CSS
- HTML5
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Fpga
- Digital design
- Web Design
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Responsive Web Design
- Sketch
- Adobe Indesign
About Company
NXP is a global semiconductor company creating solutions that enable secure connections for a smarter world.
