Sr. VLSI Design Engineer

Creative Advanced Technology Center seeks a Senior VLSI Design Engineer to join our team.  CATC provides a highly collaborative working environment where highly talented and motivated individuals work together to develop market-leading consumer audio products, such as PC and USM sound cards, compressed audio players and wireless audio products.  Nestled in the redwoods, minutes from the mountains and the beach, CATC offers a unique environment and a competitive benefits package.

 

Eligible candidates will have at least seven years proven experience in all phases of cost-effective, complex ASIC development for embedded and/or audio signal processing systems.  Particular expertise in the front-end tasks deriving system technical requirements from marketing requirements, system performance and bandwidth analysis, and system-level architecture specification are a must.  Successful leadership of the design of a major ASIC block and/or chip is desirable.  All candidates must have outstanding verbal and written communication skill and be able to work effectively as part of a cross-departmental team.  The candidate must also be capable of making HW/FW tradeoffs in order to satisfy competing cost/performance requirements.  The ideal candidate will be fluent in all phases of ASIC development from specification through silicon verification, as well as being able to assist in micro-architecture, coding, verification, and methodology enhancement.  Experience in audio signal processing and knowledge of industry-standard digital audio interfaces and standards is also highly desirable.

 

Requirements:

?  Min. BSEE plus seven years experience in ASIC development.

?  Proven ability to define and architect cost-effective ASICs for embedded and/or audio systems.

?  Ability to translate marketing requirements into cost-effective silicon and firmware solution architectures.

?  Familiarity with all aspects of VLSI development, from specfication to tapeout.

?  Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

?  Ability to find simple and cost-effective solutions to complex problems.

?  Outstanding analytical and critical thinking skills.

 

Desirable skills:

Leadership role on an ASIC design project or major block design.

Knowledge of state-of-the-art SoC design and verification methodologies, including co-simulation and emulation.

Experience in audio signal processing, and familiarity with audio interface standards such as I2S, S/PDIF.

Experience with Isochronous serial data protocols in USB 2/0/1394.Experience with PCI/PCIX/PCI-express.