Layout Designer

**About TI**

As a global semiconductor company, we design, manufacture, test and sell analog and embedded processing chips to nearly 100,000 customers. Our products enable electronics everywhere and in things you experience every day - from health care, smart homes and connected cars to drones, smart phones and more. Our passion to create a better and more sustainable world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors drives us to make our technology smaller, more efficient, more reliable and more affordable.

**Why APP?**

**About the job**

The BSR LV product line is seeking for a highly motivated IC Layout Engineer with up to three years of experience in the semiconductor world. As a member of an experienced design and layout team you will be part of developing innovative analog and mixed signal integrated circuits in leading edge technologies. Your primary activities will include: cell/top-level floor-planning, layout and verification in a Cadence Virtuoso design environment. Layout area and schedule estimation are also a key part of the overall responsibilities for this position. Layout designer will be responsible to make sure that chip/block level layouts meet all design, mask & fab manufacturing requirements. As a layout engineer in our team you will gain or further enhance your in-depth knowledge of semiconductor circuit layout including layout optimization techniques necessary for meeting device matching, placement and routing constraints. Example products we have built are TPS62870, TPS62840, TPS62A01, TPS62810

**As an IC Layout Engineer, the key responsibilities are the following but not limited to**:

- Layout generation for high-efficiency, cost-sensitive, competitive low-power DC/DC buck switched converters in the personal electronics, industrial and automotive market
- Apart from block
- and top-level layout generation this includes the following tasks:

- Size optimized floor planning including pinout
- Power transistor layout (including electromigration checks)
- Accurate die size estimation
- Process aware layout (well-proximity effect, length of diffusion)
- Floorplan integration into IC lead frame
- Parasitic aware layout (coupling, lead resistance)
- Running Design Rule Checks and Layout vs. Schematic verification
- Execution of tape out process
- Close cooperation with the onsite analog design team as well as offsite program execution and packaging in order to guarantee flawless execution on product development schedules
- Participate in design reviews and create the necessary layout documentation
- Support the layout automation/verification flow development

**Minimum requirements**:

- Bachelor or Master Degree in electrical engineering or equivalent qualification
- Recently graduated and/or with up to 2 years of experience in a professional role

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Familiar with analog layout techniques (e.g. matching, shielding, low noise, EM) and digital placement / routing
- Proven experience on block
- and top level layout generation
- Good knowledge about IC development tools (Cadence environment, Assura LVS / DRC)
- Basic understanding of BCD semiconductor technology, devices, and layout
- Unix and Cadence database management skills
- Shell or other programming language is a plus.
- Open personality with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Highly self-motivated team player with the ability to collaborate with international and cross-functional teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to take the initiative and drive for results
- Strong English language skills, German is a plus

**Our offer for you**:

- Benefit from a competitive salary, yearly profit sharing (dependent on company success) and many additional benefits and an unlimited contract from the beginning
- Join an international work environment where your ideas count and where you can thrive in a diverse culture.
- Explore a world of opportunities for your personal and professional development

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