Senior Design Automation Engineer

Senior Design Automation Engineer

Medtronic Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) Embedded Systems Environments (ESE) organization enables the development of the next generation medical technologies that alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions of patients across the world. As a Senior Design Automation Engineer, you will be enabling the design and test of Medtronic implantable cardiac devices and end-to-end testing of the complete care system used by clinicians and patients worldwide.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Performing tool installs, upgrades, set-up and license management for our various EDA tools (Cadence Palladium software, RPP software, Xilinx, ARM and Lauterbach debuggers)
• Develop training courses and deliver methodology training and proactive support to design community for these tools and environments
• Validate & production release software
• Point of contact for interfacing with tool vendors and projects
• Assist design engineers in debugging issues running designs on Palladium/RPP
• Debug Compile/Synthesis issues on Palladium/RPP
• Maintain Palladium Linux host nodes
• Run diagnostics on the Palladium, perform routine maintenance
• Optimize emulation performance on either Palladium or RPP
• Support connecting hardware/speed bridges to the palladium including setting up I/O
• Install Linux operating system on host nodes
• Setup job scheduling for these resources
• Install Debuggers boxes (DSTREAM or Lauterbach) and manage their firmware updates
• Model various analog and digital functions for emulation such as memory, power supplies, clocking etc

Nice to Haves

- Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and interest in supporting EDA tools and environments
• Experience automating, supporting and running hardware designs on accelerators (preferably Cadence Palladium)
• Experience with FPGA designs and FPGA tools (preferably Xilinx)
• Experience with static timing analysis tools
• Hardware Design Experience
• Deep knowledge of scripting with Perl, Python, TCL, or equivalent
• Deep knowledge of digital simulators (e.g. Cadence – Incisive, VCS)
• Deep knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog languages
• Working knowledge of design management tools and flows (SVN preferred)
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems
• Working knowledge of Palladium power analysis
• Working knowledge of assertion-based verification (formal & dynamic) and coverage driven-constrained random verification
• Emphasis on the application of CAE processes and tools for accurate, high-quality flows and designs to support projects

Must Haves

- Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant technical experience, or advanced degree with 2 years of technical experience

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

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