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Design Filter Engineer

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Position Title: Design Filter Designer

Length of Contract: 6 months + Possible Extension

Location: CA - Remote

Pay Rate: TBD

NOTE: Looking for someone primarily on the MATLAB part, specifically using MATLAB design the FIR, IIR, CIC and Decimation filters

Role Mandate

  • The team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Digital Filter Designer. The ideal individual will have a strong background in designing decimation filters and proficiency in MATLAB.

Candidate Value Proposition

  • The ideal candidate will be joining a team that works on hardware which goes into chips. The test chip
  • The work typically involves designing / making blocks that align with the spec.
  • The individual will be working on things that can potentially change how the work will work in the next 5-10 years! The team is supportive and collaborative.

Role Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):

  • Design and develop high-quality digital filters, with a focus on decimation filters
  • Create floating-point and fixed-point reference designs for digital filters
  • Utilize MATLAB for filter design, simulation, and implementation
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate filter designs into larger systems and facilitate end to end simulation
  • Maintain a high level of attention to detail to ensure high-quality outcomes in all design and integration tasks
  • Collaborate effectively with physical design and verification team members, contributing to team efforts and project success

Performance Measurement:

  • Performance will be measured based on deliverables and quality of design.

Must-Have Skills:

  • 5+ years of proven experience in designing digital signal processing blocks such as FIR, IIR, decimation Filters and CIC filters design
  • Strong Proficiency in MATLAB and the Signal Processing Toolbox
  • Experience in creating test vectors for fixed-point and floating-point bit accurate test vector generation using MATLAB and verify the RTL design
  • Experience with floating-point and fixed-point reference design
  • Strong hardware MATLAB experience, ability to demonstrate
  • Running Lint/RDC/CDC
  • Experience designing blocks
  • Resume must showcase project work
  • Ability to make sketches, engineering drawings and common computations
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints, technical drawing, schematics and computer-generated reports
  • Previous experience with computer applications and software related to engineering field, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD)

Nice-to-Have Skills:

  • Design verification or physical design skills
  • Experience in designing Datapath hardware accelerators
  • Experience in hardware design using development in Verilog, SystemVerilog
  • Experience with other EDA tools and methodologies related to design verification and validation is a plus.
  • Familiarity with tools such as Spyglass for conducting Lint, CDC checks.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to address and resolve design issues effectively.
  • Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python or Tcl for automation of design tasks is beneficial.
  • Knowledge of Client and Sample Rate converter

Soft Skills

  • Good communication and teamwork skills, with a proven ability to work collaboratively within diverse teams
  • Creativity, verbal and written communication skills
  • Analytical and problem-solving ability
  • Team player
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment
  • Expertise dealing with ambiguous situations

Education/Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering (pre-requisite)

Skills Assessment

  • 1 Round, 45 minutes – 1 hour
  • Digital design, MATLAB—be able to demonstrate and speak on experience and contributions; combination of everything in the requirements