Digital IC Design Engineer

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Digital IC Design Engineer | Contract | Cambridge | Up to 70ph DOE | Outside IR35 | Hybrid

Are you looking for a new opportunity within the Digital IC Design space? Are you looking to offer your expertise to help scale a growing team? Are you looking to join a fast-growing company working on industry leading technologies in Smartphones, AR/VR & Wearables?

Then this might just be the role for you.

We are working with an industry leading electronics company that operate in the precision motion solutions space with their work being applied in the Smartphone, AR/VR and Wearables sectors. They are looking to bring in a selection of IC Design Engineers with a digital bias to deliver industry leading IC RTL Design and technical mentoring to a highly skilled, close-knit team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Digital design development for custom IC Integration including the writing of IP design specifications, coding Verilog and SystemVerilog models for simulation, synthesis and static timing analysis and writing automated simulation and verification build scripts.

• Building automated pre-silicon verification environment whilst supporting early development of embedded firmware throughout start of project.

• Integrate and partition in-house designs and IP from third parties and wrap with modelling logic to represent mixed signal design element.

• Asist with the validation of new silicon chips with a mix between CI/CD automation and manual tests through electrical test equipment.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Strong experience in digital custom IC design.
• Strong experience in digital IC verification (UVM, SVA, VIP, and UPF), for ASIC implementation.
• Strong RTL coding with Verilog and System Verilog.
• Strong knowledge of interface technology (I2C, SPI, UART, SWD, JTAG, etc).
• Strong knowledge of on-chip bus protocol (AMBA AHB, APB, AXI-Stream, etc).
• Experience with Linux OS, revision control (Git) and scripting languages (Bash, Tcl, and Python).
• Experience with EDA tools for simulation (Siemens Quest), Synthesis (DesignCompiler).

Pay rate:

• Up to 70 ph D.O.E outside IR35