Sr Engineer, Digital Design

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you. 

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

This is an opportunity to join a top-notch R&D team within Renesas’ 2.6B$ Power Business Unit where you will be part of a very skilled group of engineers who are helping build world class automotive power products that will power tomorrow’s automobiles. You will design complex chips that include various analog and digital control circuitry and work very closely with all aspects of chip design – from writing specifications to developing tests for mass production. You will be a key contributor to the digital design team and work closely with the analog design team for design integration, as well as the applications and test engineering teams for validating and testing your on-chip solutions. You will have an opportunity to work on new designs, develop new standards and shape the company’s pathway to success. Your responsibilities, depending on your level of experience and skill level, will be a mix of the following:

Principal Accountabilities:

• Design of optimized digital blocks meeting functional, cost, and low power constraints and ensure spec compliance.
• Take over technical leadership for sub-systems or for complete digital system and drive from specification to production ramp.
• Develop TCL scripts and design constraints to perform synthesis, DFT insertion and static timing analysis.
• Support DFT strategy and implementation.
• Verification planning, feature extraction and verification test case development
• Interface with P&R for Digital hand-off and post layout verification
• Develop test vectors for production test.
• Instigate review meetings with design engineers.
• Perform physical silicon device evaluation where necessary.
• Develop work-around solutions where necessary to overcome device errata including documentation.
• Support RFQ process where necessary.
• Coach and mentor less experienced team members.
• Other specific tasks deemed reasonable by your manager, some of which will be set during annual performance review.

Key Performance Measures

• Deliver design work in the agreed time scales as set by program schedule for all assigned tasks.
• Pro-actively taking ownership of responsibilities.
• Accurate documentation and log all design work.
• Uses judgement within defined design guidelines and PDP to determine best action.
• Looks for continuous improvement in own and Dialog procedures, methodologies and
• Processes.
• Raises issues in a timely manner and proposes solutions.
• Quality of design and simulation in line with expectations in Principal accountabilities.
• Demonstrates good team spirit both in own team and cross functional teams.
• Proactively seek improvement in technical and non-technical skills and knowledge through self-development, course attendance and on the job training.
• Contribute to projects, programs and business initiatives through creativity and ingenuity.

Qualifications

• Typically, 3-6 years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or Masters Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Experience working in semiconductors, ideally power products with focus on mixed signal integrated circuits and low power digital design techniques.
• Fluent in either (System)Verilog or VHDL RTL coding and ASIC design methodology
• Proven ability to optimize and develop design architecture from chip inception through to compliant netlist.
• Proficiency in developing block and top-level timing constraints for STA and P&R signoff.
• Experience of scan insertion and ATPG generation
• Technical expert of industry standard tools and procedures.
• Ability to work with minimal instruction- either independently or collaboratively
• Ability to make good judgement in selecting method/technique for obtaining solutions.
• Able to confidently share own expertise and work to colleagues and customers.
• Able to make significant contributions to projects, programs and business initiatives through creativity and ingenuity.
• Results-oriented and able to deliver on-time under tight schedule.
• Ability to work both independently and part of a team.
• Flexible to undertake occasional international travel at short notice.
• Excellent command of verbal and written English
• Ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Concise and precise communication, interpersonal and customer skills within multisite and multicultural environment

Additional Information

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at www.renesas.com.

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.