RTL Design Engineer

Overview

Niobium Microsystems is a Dayton, Ohio-based company developing high performance microelectronic products to enable the secure collection, processing, and distribution of critical data. Founded as a 2021 spinout from a world-class security and computing systems R&D company, Niobium is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio with additional locations in Portland, Oregon; and Columbus, Ohio. We will not be limited by geography for the right candidate.

Our values drive every decision, and we offer a highly competitive benefits program to support employees and their families.

Headquartered in Dayton, Niobium is seeking SoC Engineers with 5 or more years of relevant industry experience. The ideal candidate has been involved in product designs in a production setting. Our Engineering team seeks passionate and creative individuals with strong technical skills to join our expanding SoC team. As an SoC Engineer, you will work in a small, talented team researching, designing, and implementing novel methodologies and architectures, contributing to all areas of SoC design, verification, and implementation.

Projects range from integrating third party IPs to designing complex systems.

• Participate in architectural feasibility studies
• Develop micro-architecture specifications based on the SoC requirements
• Design, implement and integrate complex SoC blocks
• Develop block-level test cases to deliver fully functional designs
• Develop synthesis constraints and resolve timing issues
• Resolve Lint, CDC, and DFT related issues
• Identify and resolve RTL and GLS failures at block and chip level
• Participate in ECO implementation
• Assist with silicon bring-up

• RTL Design including HVLs and HDLs (System Verilog, Verilog)
• Third Party IP Integration experience
• Logic synthesis and static timing analysis
• SoC design flow including chip-level design, block/IP design and behavioral modeling
• Modeling SoC architectures with FPGAs
• Working knowledge of standard bus protocols such as AXI/AMBA/Tile Link
• Experience with RISC-V architecture
• Working knowledge of PCIe and DDR
• Clock domain crossing methodologies
• Scripting languages such as Python, Perl, Tcl, shell, etc.
• Strong familiarity with EDA tools
• Strong problem solving and debugging capabilities
• Working knowledge of SoC design with CHISEL (desirable)
• Asynchronous logic design (desirable)

• Competitive salaries
• Employer paid health care
• Employer contribution to health savings account
• Flexible time off
• Flexible work location with remote options
• 401K employer match

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444 E 2nd Street, Suite 250, Dayton, OH 45402

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