**Job Summary**:
We are looking for a Jr. Physical Digital Design Engineer to join our team of Design Engineers in one of our offices in Europe. This role will be on-site, no remote option is available.
MPS products include: switching regulators, sensors, motor control, display drivers, audio amplifiers and power management ICs for fast-growing portable and non-portable markets such as broadband modems, notebooks, cell phones, telecom, fiber optics, digital camera, automobile and network equipment.
**Essential Functions**:
- Responsible for physical design, development, & verification of digital / mixed-signal IC’s
- Chip & block floorplan/implementation, power/clock distribution, chip assembly, P&R;, STA, & LVS/DRC to closure
- Work closely with digital/analog design team for physical implementation and custom analog blocks/interface/IP’s
**Qualifications**:
- Requires advanced degree in Elec Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent.
- 1+ years (preferred) of Physical Digital Design experience.
- 2+ years (preferred) ASIC design, verification, or related work experience.
- Good written/verbal communication English skills and strong teamwork collaboration
- Ability to work independently, follow instructions according to design specifications and execute tasks to hit milestones with quality.
- Strong knowledge of ASIC development process and digital design techniques.
- Experience with programming, scripting and automation languages like Perl/TCL/Unix/Python
- Strong technical abilities & understanding in these areas:
- Verilog/System Verilog coding.
- Synthesis, CTS, DFT, Extraction, and STA closure across multiple process corners.
- Multipower domain, signal integrity, & power/IR drop analysis.
- Linting and CDC requirements.
- Expertise in both hand-written and tool-driven functional/timing ECO.
- Physical Design Verification methodology to debug LVS/DRC issues at chip/block level
- User of industry physical tools: Cadence Encounter/Innovus tools(preferred) or Synopsys ICC/ICC2.
- Experience with the following is desired:
- Physical SOC design including uC design(ARM/RISCV)
- I/F: I2C, SPI, USB, PMBUS, etc
**Location**:
- Spain: Barcelona
- Netherlands: Enschede /Nijmegen
- Portugal: Porto / Lisbon