Staff Engineer, VLSI Design Engineering; Logic Design

Job Description

Job Description

Sandiskunderstands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandiskmeets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibilityforward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globallyforinnovation, performance and quality.

Sandiskhas two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Networkforadvanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthousesforbreakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world movingforward.

The Memory Technology Group is at the core of the Legacy San Disk Engineering Organization which Western Digital owns. We are building a cutting edge 3D memory in our multi-billion dollars Fab. Our memory provides performance, power, and endurance at a lower cost without forgoing quality. The Memory Technology organization is a strategic entity for the company and we are constantly growing.

Our group functions as a start-up within Western Digital, and offers a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be at the center of innovation.

We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to lead and deliver projects for our Memory Design team. This is a great opportunity for a results-oriented, entrepreneurial individual who knows how to work with non-volatile memory world-class engineers andhas a great track record for delivering innovative results. You will need to think creatively about the memory as we do take pride in our craftsmanship.

We do work together with all engineering teams to identify and execute on the most disciplined way. Your success will be measured by your ability to build great designs that deliver innovation that unlock revenue opportunities for the company.

Join the Memory Technology Design Team and become a leader of this highly motivated, cooperative, and focused team!

In this position, the individual will be responsible for all aspects of digital design in NAND Flash memory, focusing on micro architecture, RTL design, verification, logic synthesis, and timing analysis to deliver a design meeting target power, performance and area goals.

• RTL design and verification in Verilog, RTL linting, clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, design integration, synthesis, DFT, timing analysis and closure
• Balance design trade-offs with modularity, scalability, power, area, and performance.
• Interface with internal and external teams/customers to drive necessary technical specifications and features based on individual requirements
• Participating in Post-Si evaluation and debug
• Drive cross function support for productization
• Technical guidance and mentoring of junior engineers

• MSEE plus 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience with chip level integration, chip lead, and full product life cycle (requirements, design, implementation, test) of Logic design
• Working knowledge of the entire Logic design flow from RTL to GDSII (RTL coding, simulation, synthesis, static timing analysis, logic equivalence, DFT insertion, place-and-route, clock tree synthesis, extraction, static timing analysis, physical verification)
• Working knowledge of NAND flash memory cell device operations, algorithms for program/read/erase
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills

• Experience developing digital circuit designs for low power operating conditions
• Working knowledge of device physics and process
• Working knowledge of NAND Flash memory design including Analog, Core, Datapath…