Job Title: Senior ASIC Design Engineer

Degree Required: BS or higher

Academic Discipline (s): Electrical or Electronics Engineering or related fields, or BS with 8 years work experience or MS with 5 years work experience

Job Description:

As a Senior ASIC Designer for the SSD ASIC Design Team, you are expected to play a key role in developing leading edge SSD controller products and you will experience a different and exciting journey at TenaFe.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• RTL Coding, including block design, top level design, Lower power design, and CPF/UPF design
• Verify design and debug in RTL-level, gate-level and PG gate level
• Simulations, design constraints, coding style checking, cross clock domain checking, synthesis and timing closures
• Bug analysis and fixing, formal check
• Area, Power, FIT estimation/measure, DFT related, and ATE support
• Deliver design/verification/application documents/SPEC
• Work closely with the Algorithm Engineer to develop and debug new IP/products
• Work closely with the Verification/System/Firmware Engineer to verify/validate new IP/products
• Work closely with the Architecture and Firmware Teams to define the function of blocks
• Work closely with the Architecture and Firmware Teams to settle down SOC level, subsystem, block level FW/HW partition, and architecture
• Ability to learn new knowledge

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Verilog code design and verification
• Experience in Unix/Linux OS, and scripting language like Perl
• Experience in ASIC frontend flow and related tools (synthesis, formal, STA and DFT tools)
• Experience in Lower power design and verification with UPF/CPF
• Good understanding of circuit design and timing constraints for synthesis/STA
• Familiar with C, UVM
• Familiar with formal check, DFT related, and ATE related
• Strong problem solving ability
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to other design peers in verbal and written form
• A high level of self-motivation, the ability to be a self-starter with a good attitude and be highly responsible.
• Good written, verbal and presentation communication skills
• Ability to work in a team environment
• BS with 8 years work experience or MS with 5 years work experience

Knowledge and skills preferred, but not required:

• Demonstrate SSD controller design experience
• Complicated SOC design experience
• Expertise on PCIe and NVMe
• Expertise on DDR and NAND flash
• Good written and verbal communication skills is a plus.