Lead RTL SOC Design

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SMTS SILICON DESIGN ENGINEER
Drive and lead execution with SOC teams for Design.

• Drive efficiency on execution of SOC for integration, as well as various quality checks like lint, CDC, RDC, Synthesis, CLP, LEC, and constraints quality checks.
• Drive quality and timely delivery to various teams like DV, DFT, Emulation & PD.
• Work with the architecture team on high-level arch and uArch definition.
• Work with IP team for IP requirement, deliverables and negotiations.
• Drive SOC from concept to productization. Work with customer requirements on product definition, feature, bounding box analysis and drive optimal solution.
• Work with business and design team on optimal development cost solution considering in die size, power, performance optimization.
• Work with program management team for SOC planning, schedule, resource demand/supply, critical path analysis, dev cost and execution.
• Work with SOC (Design, DFT, DV, PD), System and SW team to deliver next generation high performance SOC designs.
• Work with post-Si team to drive Si bring up and ramp to productization.
• Drive innovation in methodologies for SOC design. Get technical alignment with experts across geographies.
• Develop plans and track progress to maintain aggressive development timelines.
• Has understanding on SOC and IP development milestones and drive execution to meet them.
• Strong understanding of SOC design methodology & related flows. (Design integration including UPF, Lint, CDC, RDC, CLP, LEC). Also on various handoffs (DV, PD, DFT & Emulation)
• Leader with strong self-driving ability and winning attitude.
• Be able to drive technical alignment with experts across geographies to improve design methodologies.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholders management skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong commitment to own/drive SOC development using well-defined metrics. Work with PM team on execution planning, to track quality metrics, milestone convergence, to assess risk, and ensure plan is on track.
• Detail-oriented candidate who can work seamlessly with larger SOC design team across geographies on driving the solutions. Technical Leader with strong self-driving ability and winning attitude.
• Should have excellent communication written, oral and presentation skills, demonstrated through technical publications, presentations, trainings, executive briefings, etc.
• Driving SOC design execution across from concept to tape-out and productization.
• Contribute to Bounding box analysis, Design, DFT, Verification, Test-plan, Power Reduction, Timing Convergence & Floorplan, Tape-outs, System engineering and SW deliverables.
• Running regular execution meetings, scrums, standing meetings and resolving bottlenecks.
• Project planning, schedule, deliverables, risk/ mitigations. Presenting status update to senior executives.
• Good understanding of sign-off flows like Lint, CDC, RDC, Formal Equivalence, Low Power Checks, timing convergence (both tile-level and FCT), and full chip integration flows.
• Drive and improvise various design hand-offs to DV, DFT, PD and Emulation teams.
• Understanding design requirements, timelines and various milestones of a project and tracking project convergence status accordingly covering all aspects of the design cycle.
• Drive methodology development ideas/forums.
• Collaborate with CAD and EDA vendors to further strengthen AMD and S3 design methodology.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work across teams in different geographies.
• Provide technical direction, guidance, and Support to the engineering team.
• Experience of successfully leading multiple SOC execution from spec to tape-out and productization.
• Expertise in SOC integration and implementation - IP Integration, SOC fabrics, Voltage / Clock domain crossings, DFT, Power intent design, RTL Quality checks, Clock, Reset, Fuses, Synthesis, Timing Analysis, Design Partitioning, PPA optimization, PnR, Timing analysis, Floorplan convergence, Physical design implementation and signoff.
• Experience in ASIC execution, customer engagement, deliverables and execution flow.
• Work with a team of Architects, Hardware and Software engineers to define the High-Level Architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience in different SOC design activities, Verification aspects, Test plan review, Debug/triage, bottleneck resolution etc. Strong Problem Solving and Debugging Skills
• Comfortable with design/implementation tools and flows like VCS, SOC Connectivity, Spyglass Lint/CDC/RDC, VCLP, Synthesis - DC/FC, ICC, and Physical design implementation/signoff tools, STA and constraints analysis tools.
• Expertise in SOC architecture, System bus and IO protocol understanding (e.g. AXI, PCIe, Memory, uProcessor, etc.)
• Good understanding of System integration, multi-die methodology, packaging, yield, and system solution.
• Experience in working with SW team for BIOS, FW, Driver, SW stack, QA and SW release is a plus.
• Expertise in managing execution team, project planning, IP delivery timelines, deliverables and quality checks, Resource planning, critical path analysis, risks, and mitigation plan.
• Good understanding of Power, Performance and Area (PPA) optimization techniques.
• Experience with scripting in Perl/TCL/Shell/Python scripting, and Python, as well as RTL design in Verilog and VHDL.
• Excellent presentation and inter-communication skills.
• ~5+ years of strong experience in leading end-to-end SOC design and ASIC execution.
• BE/B.Tech/ME/MTECH/MS or equivalent ECE/EEE with 12+ yrs. of experience

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