Digital Design Engineer

ph3Digital Design Engineer – High-Speed Communications / ASIC /h3pLausanne, Switzerland | UK options availableCHF 120,000–130,000 + benefits /ppWhat if the architecture wasn’t already decided before you joined? /ppI’m recruiting Digital Design Engineers for a small advanced semiconductor RD team exploring new approaches to high-speed communications silicon. /ppThis is not simply a role where you receive a finished specification and spend the next year implementing one RTL block. The team is working on new digital and mixed-signal architectures, with the freedom to question existing approaches, investigate new ideas and help turn the strongest concepts into production silicon. /ph3What you’ll work on /h3pYou’ll contribute to the digital architecture and RTL development of advanced communications ICs, working closely with analog, architecture and wider design teams. /ppThe work can include: /pulliRTL design and microarchitecture /liliHigh-speed digital design /liliSerDes and high-speed interfaces /liliMixed-signal digital blocks /liliDigital communications architectures /liliDesign exploration and architectural trade-offs /liliTaking new concepts from RD towards implementation in silicon /li /ulpThe projects have a 2–4 year RD horizon, so there is genuine room to investigate new approaches rather than simply following an existing standard or product roadmap. /ph3Who they’re looking for /h3pYou’ll likely come from an ASIC / Digital IC Design background with strong RTL experience and exposure to at least some of the following: /pulliHigh-speed digital design /liliSerDes /liliMixed-signal ICs /liliCommunications silicon /liliAdvanced digital architectures /li /ulpYou don’t need to tick every box. More important is that you enjoy solving problems where the answer isn’t already written in the specification. /ph3Why it’s interesting /h3pThe team is deliberately small and collaborative. You’ll be working closely with experienced engineers, discussing ideas at architecture level, whiteboarding solutions and having considerably more influence over the direction of the design than you might get in a larger organisation. The objective is also very clear: this is exploratory engineering intended to become real silicon, not research that disappears into a presentation deck. The primary RD team is based in Lausanne, with engineers typically onsite around three days per week. There is also some location flexibility for the digital positions, including opportunities in the UK. /ppIf you’re a Digital Design Engineer who enjoys asking “could we build this differently?”, I’d be very interested in speaking with you /p /p #J-18808-Ljbffr