Senior Staff Engineer Digital IP (f/m/div)

#WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life. Build the future nobody’s dreamed of yet... are you ready to rethink the impossible? As a (Senior) Staff Engineer Digital IP in our Research & Development team, you'll have the opportunity to merge creativity with your technical expertise by shaping the future of technology, driving groundbreaking projects, and bringing new ideas to life. Are you in?

Your Role

Key responsibilities in your new role

• On hands-on digital IP design execution, including micro-architecture refinement, RTL implementation, design documentation, integration support, and release readiness

• Develop high-quality RTL in SystemVerilog/ Verilog for reusable, configurable, and integration-ready IP blocks

• Translate IP roadmap requirements into executable design plans, RTL deliverables, milestones, risks, and closure actions

• Drive design quality closure through Lint, CDC, RDC, synthesis, DFT checks, ATPG readiness, and related sign-off activities

• Debug and resolve block-level, integration-level, and system-level design issues in close collaboration with Verification, Architecture, Physical Design, DFX, Firmware, and System teams

• Support development and integration of communication and peripheral IPs (I2C, UART, SPI) , AHB/APB-based interfaces, and audio interfaces

• Work with automated, configurable, and generator-based RTL development flows to improve reuse, scalability, consistency, and design productivity

• Contribute to IP architecture and design trade-off discussions, with the opportunity to grow into broader architecture ownership where required

Your Profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering, or a related field

• 8+ years of hands-on semiconductor digital IP design and RTL development experience

• Strong expertise in micro-architecture, SystemVerilog/Verilog RTL coding, design documentation, integration support, and RTL release execution

• Knowledge of communication and audio protocols is a plus

• Scripting or software development experience, especially Python, for automation, code generation, tooling, configuration management, or flow improvement

• Strong interest in AI-assisted engineering for RTL development, code review, regression analysis, log triage, documentation, checklist automation, quality closure, and release readiness

• Working knowledge of UNIX/Windows environments, MS Office tools, and version control systems such as Git or Perforce

Contact:

Nicole Hippmann

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