Digital IC Design Engineer - Embedded Processors
Texas InstrumentsJob Title
Digital IC Design Engineer - Embedded Processors
Role Summary
Design digital IP and high-performance digital circuits that interface with mixed-signal/analog blocks for embedded processors and microcontrollers. Work spans RTL design, verification support, timing closure, and silicon bring-up.
Join the Embedded Processors team focused on processor and microcontroller IP for automotive, industrial, and consumer applications; collaborate with SoC, verification, validation, test, systems, and applications teams to deliver production-quality IP.
Experience Level
Mid-level. Position expects approximately 5+ years of relevant RTL/Design/Verification experience.
Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include digital IP design, verification support, and delivery from requirements through silicon.
- Define and refine micro-architecture for digital IP blocks and convert system requirements into RTL.
- RTL development, simulation, and verification quality-control flows.
- Synthesis, timing-closure, and clock-domain crossing analysis to meet area, power, and performance goals.
- Support IP verification plans, functional debug, and collaboration with verification teams.
- Support silicon bring-up, test program development, customer engagement, and silicon/application debug.
- Interface with 3rd-party IP vendors; drive requirements, delivery milestones, and quality metrics.
- Prepare test methods, specifications, documentation, and demo hardware as needed.
Requirements
Must-have technical skills and practical experience for immediate contribution; preferred items listed after.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in RTL/design/DV development for digital IP.
- Front-end design experience of complex multi-clock-domain IP blocks.
- Proficient in Verilog and RTL coding best practices.
- Experience with lint tools, CDC checkers, synthesis, and timing-closure flows.
- Experience with simulation and waveform debug tools (example: Cadence Ncsim).
- Strong analytical, debugging, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Nice-to-have: SystemVerilog, bus/protocol experience (AXI/AMBA, CHI, AHB, APB), exposure to ARM CPU cores/DDR/cache/DSP, scripting (Tcl, Perl, Python), and verification/validation experience.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (Degree Level listed as Bachelor's Degree).
About the Company
Company: Texas Instruments
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, USA
Texas Instruments is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures, and sells analog and embedded processing chips for various markets including industrial, automotive, and personal electronics. The company's innovations aim to make electronics more affordable and reliable, fostering advancements in technology through each generation of semiconductors.
