Staff CAD Engineer (Silicon) - Cork, Ireland

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

As a member of the Graphics team, you will help develop new flows, methodologies, and algorithms to improve power, performance, and area (PPA) on state of the art GPU cores while working closely with the graphics microarchitecture design and implementation teams. You will possess a basic understanding of RTL design and the ASIC design flow from RTL to GDS, including synthesis, static timing analysis, formal verification, physical design, ECO generation, and verification. You will collaborate with multiple functional teams-including design, technology, power, implementation, sign off, and post silicon-to drive PPA improvements into GPU cores.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Implementation and delivery of GPU cores from RTL to GDSII
• Semi custom design flow and methodology development
• Identifying areas for flow and process improvements
• Verilog and System Verilog languages
• RTL synthesis using physically aware tools
• Design constraint management for power, timing, clocking, interfaces
• Formal verification for RTL netlist and netlist netlist checks
• Clock tree analysis and optimization
• ECO methods for functional and timing fixesManaging design goals and tradeoffs in power, performance, and area

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 5-7 years of experience developing methodologies for PPA improvement
• Basic understanding of digital design and RTL development
• Hands on experience with EDA tools such as Synopsys Fusion Compiler, Synopsys RTL Architect, PrimePower, PrimeTime, and Prime Closure
• Script writing experience in Unix shell, Python, Perl, and/or TCL
• Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills and ability to work independently
• Highly motivated, excellent team spirit, obsession with deliverable quality and customer orientation
• Preferred education: Master's in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering
• Required education: Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience
• Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience

Benefits:

• Salary, stock, and performance-related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, medical, income, and travel insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs (running, football, chess, badminton, and many more)

Equal Opportunity

We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected classification.