Design Intern - Advanced Integrated Circuits Research

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Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will join a world-class team of engineers and researchers and contribute to the development of innovative integrated circuits implemented in deep submicron CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) technologies. We focus on innovative circuit designs for a range of emerging applications such as AI acceleration, high-speed communications, and chiplet-based integration approaches, among others. Specific responsibilities include:

• Collaborate on architecture/system-level development. This will involve the analysis of trade-offs using system simulations and/or software and may also involve the analysis of measured data from existing/prior ICs
• Perform design and/or synthesis of digital and/or mixed-signal circuit building blocks to meet a set of specifications
• Perform co-simulation and verification of the designed circuits and sub-systems
• Support physical design/synthesis and post-layout verification
• Document design concept, simulation, and verification results

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

• Have experience with relevant industry-standard IC-development tools such as Cadence
• Have experience with design using deep sub-micron CMOS technologies
• Possess a track record of success in completing complex mixed-signal and/or digital IC designs
• Successfully create and communicate technical ideas

• Knowledge of AI-accelerator architectures
• Knowledge of chiplet-based system implementation approaches and their associated communication interfaces
• Applied knowledge of standard-cell digital design, custom digital design, and/or mixed-signal design for high-speed communications
• Knowledge of common programming languages such as Python
• Experience with hardware-software co-design

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