Sr Staff 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

We are seeking a motivated and self-driven digital designer to lead all digital design activities. 

• Lead a team of digital, DFT, PD, and verification engineers and manage them to plan and deliver multiple concurrent projects. 
• Work closely with the RF/analog design leads and marketing/applications teams to understand and create specification documents. Propose resource allocation and timeline for delivery. 
• Propose digital architecture and develop RTL code starting from scratch. 
• Guide junior designers and other digital engineers and help them resolve issues. 
• Bug tracking to ensure a robust solution. 

Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech. + 8 years or M.S./MTech. + 5 years of digital design experience. 
• Proven track record in taking a digital design from concept (spec derivation) to completion (GDS). 
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with the RF/A design leads to create spec documents. 
• Leadership qualities to work independently and lead the digital design team to work in a cohesive fashion.
• Working knowledge of physical design, ECO, DFT, and UVM verification.
• Decision-making and project-management capabilities to lead and guide DFT, verification, and physical design engineers and brainstorm them to deliver robust design in a timely fashion. 
• Deep understanding of the entire digital design flow including RTL design, synthesis, constraint development, formal verification, DFT, static timing analysis, and verification. 
• Excellent grasp and hands-on experience in digital design concepts including register definitions, state machines, clock-domain crossovers, timing constraints, etc. 
• Good understanding of communication standards like SPI, I2C, and I3C. 
• Good understanding of memory blocks like SRAMs, Efuse, and EEPROM, and how to integrate them with the digital design. 
• Excellent communication skills and effective teamwork. Good documentation skills are a must. 
• Ability to understand existing RTL code, and to develop RTL design from scratch. 
• Highly motivated and self-driven leader. 
• Motivation to work in a multi-disciplinary team. 

Additional Information

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of digital DFT is great plus. 
• Experience with Cadence design tools for synthesis, timing analysis, DFT, and verification is a great plus. 
• Knowledge of UVM methodology for SystemVerilog-based verification. 
• Knowledge of Analog-Mixed Signal simulations on Cadence Virtuoso suite. 
• Knowledge of SRAM BIST and Error Correction Code (ECC) is desired. 

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We remain agile and fearless as we accelerate our growth, encouraging everyone to play an active role with an entrepreneurial mindset and accountability.
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.

• Make a real impact by developing automotive, industrial, infrastructure, IoT, and sustainable products and solutions to meet our customers’ evolving needs and help people and communities thrive tomorrow.

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), will help you excel from the first day.
  

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.

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.