Senior Digital Design Engineer

Job Title

Senior Digital Design Engineer

Role Summary

Join the NXP Caen digital design team focusing on automotive System-on-Chips (SoCs) and IP blocks. The role delivers RTL implementation, verification, and integration of digital blocks to meet performance, area, and power targets.

Experience Level

Senior — typically a candidate with substantial ASIC/SoC digital design experience. (No explicit years provided in source.)

Responsibilities

The role covers end-to-end digital design and verification tasks within a cross-functional SoC development team.

• Develop and implement digital logic for complex SoCs and IP blocks per architecture and performance requirements.
• Write RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog and maintain design code.
• Create testbenches, run simulations, and debug functional issues to ensure coverage and correctness.
• Collaborate with architects, analog designers, and software teams to define interfaces and integrate blocks.
• Participate in synthesis, static timing analysis (STA), and formal verification to meet timing, area, and power goals.
• Implement and verify design-for-testability (DFT) features.
• Produce design documentation and take part in design reviews.
• Troubleshoot design issues across the development lifecycle and keep current with industry tools and methods.

Requirements

Key technical and interpersonal requirements. Items marked as desirable are not strictly required.

• Proven experience in digital ASIC/SoC design and familiarity with the full digital design flow (must-have).
• Proficiency in Verilog or SystemVerilog for RTL coding (must-have).
• Experience with industry-standard EDA tools for simulation, synthesis, STA, and formal verification (must-have).
• Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals including clocking, reset, and low-power techniques (must-have).
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Perl, Tcl) (nice-to-have).
• Knowledge of communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, Ethernet (highly desirable).
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills; fluency in English (required).

Education Requirements

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field (as stated). Related technical degrees are acceptable; equivalent practical experience is not explicitly mentioned.

About the Company

Company: NXP Semiconductors

Headquarters: Nijmegen, Netherlands

NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a global semiconductor company that provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions. With over 45,000 employees and operations in more than 35 countries, NXP is a leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, catering to automotive, industrial IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets. The company is committed to innovation and sustainability, advancing a smarter, safer, and more sustainable world through technology.