Job Vacancy at CERN, Switzerland

Position: ASIC Digital Design and Verification Engineer

Responsibilities

The ASIC Digital Design and Verification Engineer will be liable for the following tasks

• Model and design high-speed SerDes solutions for the LHC experiments as part of a team.
• Define and develop complex test benches using the UVM methodology to help enable first-time-right silicon.
• Perform design synthesis and post-layout verification on complex high-speed ASICs.
• Share knowledge as an expert in the verification of complex high-speed ASICs with others both within the CERN group and in the broader high energy physics community.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. or equivalent relevant experience in the field of electronics engineering or a related field. In addition to that, demonstrated experience in the verification of complex digital electronics.
• Deep knowledge and extensive experience of the UVM environment and tools such as Verilog or VHDL programming.
• Experience with at least one modern CMOS process and its application to low power, high-speed ASIC design.
• Experience with design synthesis, post-layout verification, and chip finishing. Similarly, experience with the use of CAE tools for mixed-mode microelectronics design: analog simulation, compact layout, extraction, and re-simulation.

Technical Competencies 

• Knowledge and application of high-level description languages and tools.
• Design and simulation of digital electronic circuits.
• Design and simulation of digital microelectronic circuits.

About CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (also known as CERN) is the European research organization. It operates the largest Particles Physics laboratory in the world. This 1954 established organization has 23 member countries altogether. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, scientists of CERN studies basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that collide together at close to the speed of light. In general, CERN’s main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure for high-energy physics research. And as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations.