Integrated Circuit Design Engineer VI

About Us:

Frontgrade is the largest provider of analog and radiation hardened technology for the United States aerospace and defense industry. From human spaceflight and space exploration, to missile defense and electronic warfare, to healthcare solutions addressing COVID-19, our talented team develop high performing electronic solutions that work the first time, every time. Are you looking to be part of the Space Evolution? Where innovation and ideas go hand-in-hand? Then come join the Frontgrade Team!

Overview:

As a Senior Digital Integrated Circuit Design Engineer specializing in radiation-hardened microelectronics, you will play a key role in the design and development of advanced integrated circuits and SoC’s tailored for operation in space, military, and other radiation–rich environments. You will be responsible for IC development from chip architecture definition through release to production and may secondarily support Single Board Computer FPGA design and validation. This individual demonstrates aptitude and hands-on capability to design complex digital blocks, with knowledge/experience across the complete ASIC/SoC design flow. The Senior Digital IC Design Engineer will be experienced in digital verification, Design-For-Test techniques, Standard Cell Library design methods, and the latest EDA tools.

The individual will lead architectural design, RTL coding, synthesis and verification of radiation-hardened digital circuits and systems. They will define and implement radiation-hardened techniques, such as triple modular redundancy (TMR), error correction codes (ECC), and latch up protection to enhance the reliability of these designs. The Senior Digital IC Designer will collaborate with system architects, analog/mixed-signal designers, and FPGA engineers to integrate digital designs into larger systems and ensure seamless interoperability.

Additional duties include evaluation of design requirements, determining design methodologies, formulating estimates of effort/cost for new business proposals, and participation in continuous improvements to internal design methodologies. The individual will work as part of a collaborative design-team using prudent design-management techniques including EDA tool-scripting, version-control and technical documentation, while participating in project-planning and progress-tracking.

Responsibilities:

YOUR ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIESProvide technical leadership for new Digital and Mixed-signal ASIC programs.

Collaborate with external and internal customers to define ASIC solution architectures.

Reviewing and editing target specifications (FRONTGRADE or External Customers) and translating them into design constraints.

Implement digital designs using RTL & Logic Synthesis methods (Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog).

Develop architectures and specifications for complex design blocks.

Add DFT (Design for Test) logic to the design to efficiently implement efficient testing of the design for manufacturing.

Interface with ASIC customers and FRONTGRADE internal Place & Route Engineers to ensure the ASIC customer designs are correctly implemented in silicon.

Develop verification plans, simulation environments, coverage metrics, and perform design verification for digital blocks and systems.

Use modern verification methods to verify digital blocks and systems, such as directed/constrained random, assertions, UVM, code coverage.

Use modern Static Timing Analysis and Formal Verification tools to verify the correctness of digital gate level implementations.

Use the ElectroMigration/IR drop analysis tools/results to address its impacts with the design.

Work as part of a cross functional team to develop cost estimates for new ASIC opportunities.

Continuously learn and stay current with EDA tools, modern design techniques, technology, architectures, and interfaces.

Partner with internal and external customers to develop technical solutions that enable new missions.

Provide technical report-outs to peers and occasionally external customers.

Create and execute mixed-signal modeling and simulation.

Support and lead project planning and Agile project development

Support and lead proposal estimation and technical proposal write-ups for new program pursuits.

Qualifications:

HOW TO SUCCEEDTo join us you’ll need: Minimum Requirements:BSEE, BSCE, or equivalent.

15+ years of experience implementing ASIC or FPGA designs using Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL.

Strong aptitude to learn and apply best practices and techniques using EDA tools.

Able to decompose a complex set of product requirements into an execution plan.

Experience with computer architectures, computer systems, signal integrity, component selection would be a plus.

Salary Range: $(phone number removed) - $(phone number removed)/annualy. Applicable pay within the posted range may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographical location, job function of the position, education, and experience of the successful candidate.

Employment Transparency:

BENEFITSWe take care of our people and provide competitive health, wealth and wellbeing benefits – from day one. You’ll also discover learning and development opportunities so you can take your career to the next level – and beyond. Other benefits include:Competitive Benefits: Medical (FSA + HSA), Dental, and Vision

Immediate 401K Vesting/Matching

Career Opportunity and Growth

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment

Generous PTO and 11 paid Holidays per year (8 regular and 3 floating)

8 weeks of 100% Paid Family Leave

*Profit Sharing Plan applies to all non-Annual Incentive Plan and non-Sales Incentive Plan employees.

ABOUT Frontgrade

Frontgrade is the largest provider of analog and radiation hardened technology for the United States aerospace and defense industry. From human spaceflight and space exploration, to missile defense and electronic warfare, to healthcare solutions addressing COVID-19, our talented team develop high performing electronic solutions that work the first time, every time. WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYERAt Frontgrade we welcome differences and celebrate new ideas. We believe the diversity of our people inspires our creativity and drives our innovation. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please email

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