Digital SoC expert designer - Technical leader - Leu...

Digital SoC expert designer - Technical leader

Initial 6 month freelance contract + possible extensions

Leuven, Belgium (3 days / week onsite)

40 hours/week

ASAP start

Take responsibility for the design of high-performance, ultra-low-power digital signal processing modules

The assignment

• Collaborate with system architect team, digital back-end team and embedded SW and validation as well as the other project stakeholders.
• Lead RTL development for ASIC and FPGA. Supervise the verification planning and activities (possibly including mixed-signal projects).
• Define and/or propose (new) way of working to maximize the efficiency of the design process.
• Contribute to high-quality reports and documentation.

Required knowledge and skills

• MSc or PhD in electronics engineering with 10+ years of relevant experience in ASIC design.
• Solid understanding of digital ASIC-design flow is required: logic synthesis, timing analysis, power estimation/simulation, logic equivalence, STA (DFT and/or P&R is preferred).
• Structural way of working and ability to develop and manage activity planning is required.
• Experience working closely with (internal or external) stakeholders is required.
• Strong experience with digital circuit design in (System) Verilog is required.
• Experience with SoC top level design and/or sub-systems is required; including low power techniques.
• Experience with digital verification is preferred: plan definition, verification methodologies, code/functional coverage, constrained random verification, verification plan execution and tracking.
• Knowledge of high-level synthesis methodologies is a plus.
• Experience with Cadence IC design tools is preferred.
• Knowledge of the FPGA-development flow is a plus.
• Experience with scripting languages like TCL, Matlab and Python is required.
• Experience with revisioning systems, like git is required.
• Able to take initiative and responsibility for team’s success. Thinking pro-actively, working independently and having a creative problem-solving attitude.
• Have broad interest across disciplines and like to embrace new challenges.
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).