Senior ASIC Designer - Western Digital

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We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior ASIC Designer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both logic design, with extensive Verilog coding experience, and a good understanding of physical design. This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing ASICs for our next-generation products, ensuring high performance, efficiency, and scalability.

• Key Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement complex ASICs using System Verilog 
  • Technical oversee of physical design process, including synthesis, floor planning, power grid design, place and route, reset/clock tree synthesis,  design for manufacturability and timing closure.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design specifications and requirements.
  • Optimize designs for power, performance, and area (PPA).
  • Micro-architecture of the modules you will be responsible for
  • Micro-architecture documentation.
  • Work with verification teams to review the test plans and provide input
  • Debug, root cause and fix issues found in the design as part of verification testing based on simulations or FPGA testing.
  • Stay abreast of the latest ASIC design technologies and methodologies.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field. A Master's degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in ASIC design, with a strong focus on  logic design and good understanding of physical design
• Proficient in Verilog and System Verilog for RTL design and verification.
• Experience with ASIC design tools and methodologies, including EDA tools for synthesis, place and route, and timing analysis (e.g., Cadence, Synopsys).
• Deep understanding of digital design principles, including FSMs, data path architectures, and low power design techniques.
• Good understanding of physical design and related challenges, such as DFM (Design for Manufacturability), signal integrity, and power integrity.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl for design automation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively to overcome design challenges.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the experience leading projects and mentoring junior designer

• Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of FPGA design and prototyping.
• Experience with analog design integration and mixed-signal design considerations.
• Familiarity with industry standards and protocols relevant to the company's products.
• Participation in silicon bring-up, validation, and debugging
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, RoCE, RDMA Protocols, Ethernet, PCIe, TLS, IPSec and NVMe
• Design Experience with Cryptography, Root of Trust (RoT) items like Secure Boot, Secure Firmware Download, Secure Debug, Authentication and Attestation

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Western Digital’s Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance.  Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.