Senior Engineer, Digital Design Engineering

About Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in digitized factories, mobility, and digital healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world.

The Edinburgh team is seeking a Senior Digital Design Engineer to grow its talented group located in the city centre of the Scottish capital. ADI’s Personal Electronics Solutions Group has been leading the industry, working with the world’s leading consumer companies, providing high value audio solutions for the portable, wearable, and gaming markets. We are poised for significant growth as we enter the next phase, driven by the insatiable consumer demand for new technologies and access to information. The successful candidate will join a diverse team that is motivated, supportive, and eager to share its knowledge. It is the ideal place to enhance both technical expertise and interpersonal skills, whilst collaborating with our design teams worldwide.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Be responsible for the architecture, design, emulation, and verification of the digital portion of Analog Devices audio products.
• Drive improvements in new product cycle time, design quality, design methodology and engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and customers to ensure future products meet the demands of the market.
• Work closely with support organizations to ensure suitable design, verification, and emulation tools are available and utilized.
• Participate in feasibility studies and innovation.
• Use latest EDA tools to continually improve quality and design cycles.
• Verify complex System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions with exposure to advanced methodologies such as UVM.
• Work with the Analog design team and chip lead to identify partitioning and block requirements.
• Support DFT strategy and implementation.
• Contribute to chip level verification at top level.
• Work with other designers and layout team members to integrate the digital blocks into the chip top level.
• Participate in the chip level verification before the tape out process.
• Conduct and drive circuit design reviews before tape out.
• Participate in silicon wake up and debug.
• Generate production test vectors, support test development and ramp to production.
• Provide support to the ATE team to develop an automated test solution.
• Provide support for the application team to enable final products.

Minimum Qualifications:

• MSEE + minimum 5+ years of relevant experience in Semiconductor industry doing digital standard cell-based IC design using Verilog, performing Linting/CDC/RDC checks, synthesis, timing analysis, power analysis and physical verification tools.
• Track record of multiple products in volume production.
• Experience with design for testability, scan insertion, scan pattern debugging.
• Familiarity with Cadence and Synopsys design tools.
• Experience debugging ICs and associated evaluation systems in a lab environment.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work within a cross functional team and understanding of the complete digital design flow are musts for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Matlab and Simulink.
• Expertise with Signal Processing concepts such as Digital Filters, Interpolation/Decimation and Delta-Sigma Converters.
• Experience with integration of micro-processors such as ARM and RISC-V MCU 8051 IDE.
• Versatile in communication protocols such as I2C, I2S SPI.
• Experience with multiple power domains.
• Experience with clock domains, bus arbiter control.
• Knowledge of SRAM, ROM and Flash memory.
• Passion for Audio.
• Proactive and growth mindset, ability to work independently.

Why You Will Like Working At ADI:

• We allow our employees the freedom to explore new ideas and the autonomy to determine how to best achieve goals.
• We place great value on individual judgment.
• We emphasize professional development and mentoring.
• Above all, we recognize that our employees’ personal goals and the company’s goals are closely related and must support each other.