RTL Design Manager

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As an RTL Design Manager for the AECG IP & SOC group, you will help bring to life cutting‑edge designs. As a member of the front‑end design/integration team, you will work closely with the architecture, IP design, Physical Design teams, and product engineers to achieve first‑pass silicon success.

A successful candidate will work with senior silicon design engineers. The candidate will be highly accurate and detail‑oriented, possessing good communication and problem‑solving skills.

• Lead a small, high‑performance engineering team
• Own the design and implementation of blocks to meet functional, timing, area and power requirements
• Guide and review verification for these blocks
• Design and implement logic functions that enable efficient test and debug
• Implement automation to increase design team efficiency
• Strong front‑end RTL engineering background
• Strong communication skills, able to summarize complex problems for executives as well as drill down to details with architects and engineers
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills including the ability to analyze current behavior, identify potential areas for improvement, and design of experiment

• Experience with Arm architecture and APB, AXI, CHI protocols
• Experience with design reuse, including RTL, constraints, and waivers
• Experience with SoC level design integration
• Experience with automation using scripting techniques such as PERL, Python, or Tcl
• Experience with timing constraints and timing exceptions
• Experience running standard quality checks such as LINT and CDC
• Experience designing with multiple power domains including writing UPF
• Must be a self‑starter and self‑motivated

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering

San Jose, CA

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.