Design Support Engineer

About This Role

• Manage the interface between design groups and the various foundries.
• This includes reviewing with designers the performance requirements and application-specific operating conditions, disseminating process development information to internal groups, driving foundry device design to meet future product requirements, and extracting the necessary technical and device performance data for design.
• Work with foundry and internal CAD to enable design with technology files and process design kits.
• Work with Manufacturing, Central Engineering, and Design to validate design IP.
• Collect design sensitivity data and bring the products to alternative foundries for manufacturing.
• Handle product tape out, verification of design rule violations, mask data, and process flows.
• Resolve prototype lot issues; determine whether problems are design or process related.
• Starting engineering corner lots and evaluation of parametric data vs. sort data.
• Work with the design teams to ensure product tape outs meet requirements for process window, manufacturing variation, electrical screening, and reliability.
• Hold pre-design kickoff and pre-tape out meetings to cover product quality assurance.
• Software skills to manage tape out activity automation is a plus Bachelor’s + 5+ years or Masters degree + 3+ years or PhD + 0+ years of related experience required.
• We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
• If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.