Texas Instruments Lead Digital Design Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

554241958

About the Job:

These audio products are truly mixed-signal devices with highly integrated digital circuits such as a DSP core for digital filters and audio signal processing blocks, hardware processing blocks, analog controllers, various serial interfaces (Audio serial interfaces, I2C, SPI) and other digital blocks like clock-generation, registers map, Interrupts etc.

What can you expect to learn in this role/Opportunity?

• To work with the best experts in the industry.
• To develop capability to work effectively in a technically challenging fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
• To innovate on core technology in design methodologies & influence decisions that have wide business impact across many products & teams.
• To work on cutting edge industry leading products.
• To learn overall product development Process and directly influence the features, differentiation & quality of the product.
• To learn and develop business insights, drive open discussions with business & technology leaders and drive decisions impacting product & technology execution.
• To build strong, influential relationships with domain experts.
• To develop good communication, interpersonal skills while interacting with worldwide cross functional experts.
• To learn identifying risks across domains and adapt to support changing priorities.
• To present analysis and conclusions to internal customers and business leaders in a comprehensive and effective manner.
• To work closely with cross-domain experts other engineers and interns.

Job Requirement:

• Strong digital design fundamentals and basic electrical/electronic engineering concepts.
• Experience in building RTL micro architectures development.
• Hands on experience in RTL coding.
• Experience with Verilog/VHDL/System Verilog language.
• Should be good knowledge on lint, CDC, RDC, constraint development, synthesis.
• Good understanding of digital timing analysis.
• Expert in using simulation tools (preferably Cadence).
• Basic scripting knowledge using shell/python/perl is preferred.
• Knowledge of audio signal chain, I2C, ASI/TDM, memory architecture and FPGA is preferred.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skill.
• Good communication, presentation skills and teamwork.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and Development of digital logic circuits including signal chain, clocking circuits, fault & interrupt handler, memory management and FPGA.
• Detailed documentation preparation and knowledge sharing of design architecture and implementation with other domains along with conducting Arch and design Reviews
• Work with analog and firmware design domains on integration of system level specification.
• Work closely with other design and systems teams to review/close spec gaps and design bugs, as they arise.
• Handle Design QCs like lint, CDC, RDC
• Developing constraint development and synthesis.
• Support physical design team and work closely on timing closure.
• Support DV and silicon validation team with testplan support, design debugs, root cause analysis and workaround.
• Review verification coverage and sign off on waivers.
• Innovate & drive new and improved methodologies where needed, work with the EDA team to upgrade tools and flows.
• Conducting design reviews and creating the necessary design and product documentation.
• Interacting with Test/Silicon Validation/Application Engineering team to ensure successful use of products and support customer applications debug/analysis.
• Excellent teamwork, adapting to situations and ability to guide, help other team members.
• Communication of design status, issues, and concerns.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering.
• 3+ years of Digital design experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills to interact with all stakeholders.
• Ability to work in teams and collaborate effectively with people in different functions.
• Strong time management skills that enable on-time project delivery.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to take the initiative and drive for results.
• Ability to build strong, influential relationships with cross-functional teams.

Added Advantage:

• Experience in silicon debug along with silicon validation team.
• Experience in audio signal processing and understanding of audio systems/applications.