Senior SoC Digital Design Engineer

Senior SoC Digital Design Engineer - Lower Saxony - Leading Optical Communications Company

A global leader in opto-electronic applications for industrial, optical communications, aerospace and defence, life sciences, semiconductor and consumer market and offices in multiple countries is looking for a Senior SoC Digital IC Design Engineer for one of their design centres in Northern Germany. The Senior SOC Digital Design Engineer will contribute to the development of high-speed System-on-Chip devices in latest CMOS technology for industry-leading optical products including transceivers, transponders and ROADM products.

Your responsibilities as Senior SoC Digital IC Design Engineer will include the following:

• Collaborate with the chip architect on the definition of design requirements
• Create micro-architecture specifications
• Implement digital circuits for advanced CMOS technology nodes 
• Implement low power IP designs 
• Collaborate with Physical Design and Verification Engineers

• Master’s degree (Dipl.-Ing.) or PhD in electrical engineering or computer science
• Minimum 5 years of experience in digital ASIC design
• Excellent programming skills in hardware description languages (e.g. SystemVerilog)
• Good programming skills in scripting languages (e.g. Python, Perl, Tcl)
• Expertise in verification methodologies & tools (e.g. UVM) would be a plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English