The job location is Leuven.

The main role of the junior digital physical design / PnR Engineer is to perform and organize the digital and mixed-signal physical design of ASICs developed by ICsense.
Responsibilities

Physical design of digital integrated circuits (place & route) following the internal design rules and quality regulations. Assumes full responsibility on the quality and accurateness of the back-end layouts.

In close cooperation with analog layouters, digital designers and project leaders

Organization of deliverables and timings of these deliverables to ensure high-quality and timely delivery of the digital and mixed-signal top-level layout

Top-level assembly of ASICs containing digital and analog parts, considering DFT

Top-level physical verification: LVS, DRC, ERC, antenna, IR drop, electro migration…

Setup and maintain technology setup and tool flow for place & route and physical synthesis

Competences

You have a master’s degree in electrical engineering (preferably chip design)

You are a dynamic and highly motivated engineer

You want to learn all about digital physical design, floor planning and P&R for multiple power-domains (UPF) and multiple clock-domains.

You love automating tools using e.g. a script-based approach (Python, TCL…) to streamline the back-end flow.

You are interested to learn about digital synthesis, logic equivalence checking, Static Timing Analysis and physical verification.

You have strong communication and reporting skills, also in English.

Considered as a plus:
Experience with front-end RTL design in VHDL and/or Verilog and/or SystemVerilog

Experience with scripting and programming languages such as Python, TCL and C

Experience with back-end synthesis and timing analysis (STA)

Our offer

The job location is Leuven

An attractive salary package with a variety of extra benefits

A stimulating and pleasant working environment with regular team activities

A financially healthy company with growth potential

Possibility to continuously learn and grow through in-house and external trainings

Becoming a part of next generation innovative IC developments for international customers in micro-electronics, automotive, medical and industrial companies

Marijke

Think you’d be a great addition to our team? We’d love to hear from you – get in touch and let’s start the conversation.

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