SRAM Design Engineer

Position Summary

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design highly competitive circuits to meet performance/power specifications requested by customers.
• Guide and lead a group of engineers to deliver the SRAM IP in the given timelines.
• Analyse circuits and identify potential robustness gaps and find solutions to improve robustness of the design.
• Own the responsibility from SPEC to GDS and DK delivery.
• Review circuits, robustness reports and identify potential robustness issues.
• Review Layouts and suggest improvement areas to achieve competitive PPA.
• Understanding of SRAM PPA trade-offs and identify right techniques to meet SPEC.
• Must be able to communicate effectively across different teams.
• Skills and Qualifications

Skills & Experience

• Master/Bachelor in electronics.
• Working experience in preferably Memory design.
• Understanding of RC network and FINFET fundamentals are necessary.
• Custom or Compiler SRAM/ROM development experience.
• Fundamentals of process variability and its effect on memory design.
• Thorough understanding of SRAM bit cell and its characteristics (Read current, Standby current, data retention, SNM).
• Strong understanding of circuit design fundamentals.
• Critical path modelling concept, various type of models ( RC, C, Pai, ladder).
• Good knowledge of semiconductor physics. Like knowledge of FINFET function, parasitic etc.