Senior Digital Design Engineer

Business Unit Description • AI Chip Engineering Digital IP team defines and develops components for a wide range of products, including automotive microprocessors, application processors, microcontrollers, and networking. The Austin Digital IP team develops components for DDR, Display Controller, high-speed serial links, cores, memory controllers, and interconnect. Job Summary: • Review IP architecture specifications, features and programming model, microarchitecture and interface specifications. • Plan IP documentation and design, including providing schedule assessments. • Design IP meeting requirements for quality and performance, using Verilog and System Verilog RTL, and vendor and internal checking tools. • Collaborate with verification team to develop test plans and complete verification execution to 100% coverage, and as per NXP standard quality and maturity standards. • Deliver completed IP, including RTL design and supporting documentation • Track metrics during IP development, include development plan milestones, code and functional coverage, defect tickets, and tracing of requirements versus design specification. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide expert support to subsystem, SoC, validation, and applications engineering teams during product development. Key challenges: • Proving design meets all requirements and ensuring zero defects escape to silicon. • Meeting committed schedules without compromising quality Cross-functional aspects: • Definition reviews with architecture teams and designers • Planning with verification team, architecture team, and project manager • Integration of digital IP, working with local and global SoC front-end design teams • Support for local customers on IP, subsystem and SoC verification teams, emulation and silicon validation teams • Support for applications engineers and end-customers to replicate and identify root cause field failures, and identify workarounds. • Collaborate with local and global verification and tools development teams in developing improved methods of verification Job Qualifications: • Minimum BSEE/BSCE/BSCS • Minimum 4 years of experience in IP or SoC design • Knowledge of SoC architecture required • Expert knowledge of Verilog required • Experience with design quality checks, including Lint, clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, static timing analysis (STA) • Expert knowledge of ARM AMBA bus protocol standards desired • Knowledge of functional safety, including ISO26262 a plus • Knowledge of CPU or cache architecture a plus • Knowledge of C coding a plus • Knowledge of scripting, such as Perl or Python, a plus More information about NXP in the United States... NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals. #LI-6692