Frontgrade Technologies · 7 hours ago
Integrated Circuit Design Engineer VI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$173K/yr - $220K/yr
12+ years expFrontgrade Technologies is a leading provider of high reliability and radiation assured solutions for defense, space, intelligence, commercial, and civil applications. They are seeking a Master Digital Integrated Circuit Design Engineer to lead the design and execution of advanced digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, focusing on radiation-hardened microelectronics for various environments. The role involves technical leadership, collaboration with customers, and hands-on work in digital architecture and design verification.
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Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership for new Digital and Mixed-signal ASIC programs
Collaborate with external and internal customers to define ASIC solution architectures
Reviewing and editing target specifications (FRONTGRADE or External Customers) and translating them into design constraints
Implement digital designs using RTL & Logic Synthesis methods (Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog)
Develop architectures and specifications for complex design blocks
Add DFT (Design for Test) logic to the design to efficiently implement efficient testing of the design for manufacturing
Interface with ASIC customers and FRONTGRADE internal Place & Route Engineers to ensure the ASIC customer designs are correctly implemented in silicon
Develop verification plans, simulation environments, coverage metrics, and perform design verification for digital blocks and systems
Use modern verification methods to verify digital blocks and systems, such as directed/constrained random, assertions, UVM, code coverage
Use modern Static Timing Analysis and Formal Verification tools to verify the correctness of digital gate level implementations
Use the ElectroMigration/IR drop analysis tools/results to address its impacts with the design
Work as part of a cross functional team to develop cost estimates for new ASIC opportunities
Continuously learn and stay current with EDA tools, modern design techniques, technology, architectures, and interfaces
Have expert familiarity with design-data organization, version control, configuration management and automated procedures
Partner with internal and external customers to develop technical solutions that enable new missions
Provide technical report-outs to peers and occasionally external customers
Support and lead project planning and Agile project development
Support and lead proposal estimation and technical proposal write-ups for new program pursuits
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
Minimum twelve (12) years of experience implementing ASIC or FPGA designs using Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL
10 years of experience may be considered w/ a Masters Degree
7 years of experience may be considered w/ a PhD
Strong aptitude to learn and apply best practices and techniques using EDA tools
Able to decompose a complex set of product requirements into an execution plan
Preferred
Experience with computer architectures, computer systems, signal integrity, component selection would be a plus
Benefits
Medical (FSA + HSA)
Dental
Vision
Immediate 401K Vesting/Matching
Career Opportunity and Growth
Tuition Reimbursement
Student Loan Repayment
Generous PTO and 11 paid Holidays per year (9 regular and 2 floating)
8 weeks of 100% Paid Family Leave
Company
Frontgrade Technologies
Frontgrade Technologies provide reliable, cutting-edge electronic solutions for space and national security.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Lorne Graves
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-11-19
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