NXP

Principal ASIC Design Engine

India · Work style not stated · Full time

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  • EmployerNXP
  • LocationIndia
  • Work styleWork style not stated
  • Employment typeFull time
  • Employer posted

Principal ASIC Design Engineer – Digital Design

Primary Location: Hyderabad

Role Summary: Role:

We are seeking an experienced RTL Designer with strong expertise in micro-architecture development, RTL design, integration, and implementation of complex digital blocks/subsystems. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of translating architectural specifications into high-quality RTL, driving designs from concept through synthesis and silicon bring-up, and collaborating closely with architecture, verification, DFT, physical design, firmware, and system teams.

The role requires deep knowledge of System Verilog/Verilog RTL design, digital design fundamentals, clock/reset architectures, low-power design techniques, and performance-driven implementation. The candidate should be capable of owning IP/block-level development, resolving functional and timing issues, supporting verification and implementation activities, and ensuring delivery of robust, power-efficient, and high-performance designs for next-generation AI inference accelerators.

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Job Responsibility:

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Key Responsibilities

  • Define and implement hardware architectures optimized for AI inference SoCs.
  • Contribute to microarchitecture definition and evaluate design trade-offs for complex SoCs, including custom ISA-based processors, high-speed interconnects, and high-bandwidth I/O.
  • Own features end to end, from specification and RTL through integration, synthesis, and debug.
  • Collaborate with physical design teams on synthesis, timing closure, and power optimization.
  • Work with the verification team to ensure design correctness.
  • Partner with architecture engineers to model workloads, analyze performance bottlenecks, and validate AI inference use cases.

Job Qualification:

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  • 14+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC RTL design.
  • Strong Verilog/SystemVerilog coding skills.
  • Solid understanding of synthesis, timing analysis, and power analysis.
  • Experience with lint, CDC, and RDC flows.
  • Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.

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  • SeniorityLead / Principal
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