Principal Engineer for Digital Design (f/m/div)

#WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life. What if your ideas could change the way the world connects, powers up, or thinks? As a Principal Engineer Digital Design 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

As a Principal Engineer for Digital Design, you will lead the architecture and implementation of complex digital and mixed-signal blocks for automotive microcontroller IPs, ensuring safety compliance and driving scalable, reusable IP development.

• Lead architectural and concept development, design, and RTL coding to synthesize and integrate complex digital and mixed-signal blocks for automotive microcontroller IPs

• Conduct comprehensive analysis of digital blocks performance across various corner cases

• Own microarchitecture design, specification, and maintenance

• Perform synthesis, static timing analysis (STA), and optimize power/area/performance trade-offs in close collaboration with the physical design team

• Ensure designs comply with ISO 26262 and other automotive safety standards, implementing safety mechanisms as required

• Proactively identify and resolve technical risks and issues related to design, timing, or functionality

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams - including System Architects, Software Engineers, and Validation teams - to ensure seamless product integration

Your profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

With solid familiarity in microcontroller infrastructure IPs - including clocking, reset, power control, and on-chip monitoring and alarming - you bring a strong understanding of system-level design requirements. You are a skilled mentor with an approachable attitude, capable of working both independently and collaboratively to tackle complex challenges and deliver high-quality results.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

• 8+ years of experience in digital design, with a focus on automotive, safety-critical systems, and power management systems

• Expertise in RTL coding using System Verilog, Verilog, and VHDL, with knowledge of synthesis and static timing analysis (STA)

• Experience with debug tools, simulation/emulation methodologies, and power/performance/area trade-offs

• Knowledge of automotive safety standards (ISO 26262) (mandatory), with experience implementing safety mechanisms as an advantage

• Experience with low-power design techniques, and DFT (Design for Test)

• Fluency in English (mandatory)

Please send us your CV in English.

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