What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physical Design Engineer position at NXP Semiconductors?
Perform semiconductor engineering design, development, and testing for firm products and devices in conjunction with product development for the electronic communications industry. Implement new engineering assignments including engineering and designing chip layout circuits, circuit checking, documenting specifications, and modifying and evaluating semiconductor devices and components. Contribute to technical projects within the areas of testing methods, device specification, and yield problems; perform redesign of devices, components, or integrated circuitry for hardware and other systems; and will review product requirements and logic diagrams for device definition. Ensure compliance with design specifications, codes, and stated requirements. Operate computer-assisted engineering software tools and configure the same to perform design engineering tasks and implement test programs and procedures. Confer with customers and other departments on design status, processing, testing and technical issues, and failure analysis. Monitor production of products and devices to ensure conformance to design specifications.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Computer Engineering (with related variants such as VLSI or Physics), foreign equivalent or related field.
Required Skills
Position requires requires completion of a graduate-level course, research project, internship or thesis involving:
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 law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or Computer Engineering (with related variants such as VLSI or Physics), foreign equivalent or related field.
Required Skills
Position requires requires completion of a graduate-level course, research project, internship or thesis involving:
- Timing analysis and closure for the digital circuits
- Physical Design Verification (DRC or MRC or LVS) for the digital circuits
- Power Delivery Network design and analysis for the digital circuits
- All aspects of Physical Design implementation of digital circuits from RTL Synthesis to GDS
- VLSI Design;
- Hardware Design;
- Verilog; and
- Python Programming Language.
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 law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
