Entry level Hardware Developer - Rochester, MN - 2027

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

VLSI Circuit Design /Physical Design/ Integration Engineer

You will be responsible for the physical and electrical design and development of high-frequency CMOS chips in leading edge technologies using sophisticated design tools and flows to implement circuit schematics (microprocessors and ASIC) and verify against technology design rules. Skills required include CMOS circuit and VLSI design, timing analysis. Experience with Cadence tool suite is viewed as a significant advantage.

Analog Circuit Design Engineer

You will be part of the team that is responsible for delivering our high speed SERDES interfaces for IBM Power and Z microprocessors in advanced 3nm technologies and beyond. You will also help your new team transition the high-speed IO architecture from NMZ to PAM4 in support of future IBM microprocessors. You will use a combination of industry standard and IBM proprietary tools to design, simulate, and layout your circuits. You will have an opportunity to work on transmitter, receiver, PLL, or other analog designs. You will learn what it takes to develop and deliver complex analog circuits for IBM products.

Required technical and professional expertise

VLSI Circuit Design /Physical Design/ Integration Engineer

• Deliver the physical and electrical design of specific processor and ASIC design elements

• Understanding Computer Architectures, Digital System Design, and VLSI Systems

• Projects in RTL design using Verilog/VHDL

• Scripting skills (Python)

• Inter-discipline design experience

• Analog Circuit Design Engineer

• Perform schematic level design using Cadence design tools

• Perform in-depth circuit analysis using Spectre and spice simulators

• Analyze the design for manufacturability and end of life requirements

• Develop various scripts to parse data using languages like Python

• Relevant Circuit Design course with applied experience in circuit design

• Use of Cadence and Spice tools

• Understanding of VHDL, Python, Perl, TCL

Preferred technical and professional experience

VLSI Circuit Design /Physical Design/ Integration Engineer

• Git, Python hands-on experience

• Internships or work experience in high-frequency processor or ASIC physical design

• Exposure to industry microprocessor designs (x86, ARM, or RISC-V)

• Analog Circuit Design Engineer

• Relevant Analog Circuit Design course

• Understanding of Interface terminology such as NMZ, PAM4, CTLE, DFE, PLLs, RX, TX and how these work within a High-Speed interface

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