About the role
AI summarisedThis role is for a Foundation IP Memory Verification Engineer in the semiconductor industry, responsible for validating memory designs for AI products. The engineer will perform functional verification, signal integrity analysis, and transistor-level simulations, as well as develop automation scripts and support silicon debug. The position requires a BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering and a strong understanding of circuit behavior and device physics.
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Key Responsibilities
- Contribute towards Memory Design Validation of all types of custom memory macros and memory compilers
- Perform functional verification, root cause design discrepancies, and help resolve them
- Perform signal integrity analysis, identify design weaknesses, and propose possible solutions to address them
- Perform transistor level simulations to check for any Power Up or Lock up issues and help resolve them
- Perform EM/IR analysis/simulations and evaluate impact on timing and internal margins
- Perform transistor level simulations to validate timing and internal margins, identify timing characterization holes, and help resolve them
- Perform various QA and validation checks to ensure accurate timing and power models
- Develop scripts to automate verification flow and data analysis
- Support silicon debugs and correlation to spice models
- Collaborate with key memory designers to co-develop and improve the memory characterization and validation flow
- Coordinate with memory design leads, modelling leads, and managers to define and execute on the memory validation plan
Requirements
- Good understanding of transistor level circuit behavior and device physics
- Good understanding of signal integrity analysis, EM/IR analysis, and reliability analysis
- Proficiency in running simulators, writing automation scripts, and are tools savvy
- Understanding of memory behavioral and physical models is a plus
- Expertise in memory circuit design is a plus
- Understanding of DFT schemes and chip level integration is a plus
- Good communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
- Motivated, self-driven and good at multi-tasking
- Passion for solving complex problems and willingness to learn
- Requires a BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering