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About the Team!
The Motor Drives business unit is looking for an experienced, highly motivated, and quick learner to join their IC Design & Verification team in Bangalore, IN. We work on both power and precision challenges, developing high voltage, high current integrated ICs and bringing in signal-chain based control expertise to improve power density, control accuracy, and meet thermal requirements in motor drive products. We create cutting-edge, highly distinct parts for the Industrial and Automotive motor drives markets. This team is in charge of the entire product development process, from concept to market release. We also take pride in pushing the boundaries of innovation and turning those innovative concepts into products with aggressive, customer-driven timelines.
What can you expect to learn in this role? (Opportunity)
- To work with the best experts in the industry.
- To develop capability to work effectively in a technically challenging fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.
- To work on cutting edge analog semiconductor processes
- To innovate on core technology in semiconductor process, packages & influence decisions that have wide business impact across many products & teams.
- To interact with wafer fabrication, assembly & test facilities.
- To learn product development process, Qualification and Manufacturing flows.
- To directly influence the features, differentiation & cost entitlement of the product at release to market.
- To define, as a team, long-term roadmap of automation flows and methodologies to continuously improve productivity.
- To learn and develop business insights, drive open discussions with business & technology leaders and drive decisions impacting product & technology execution
- To build strong, influential relationships with domain experts
- To develop good communication, interpersonal skills while interacting with worldwide cross functional experts
- To learn identifying risks across domains and adapt to support changing priorities
- To present analysis and conclusions to internal customers and business leaders in a comprehensive and effective manner.
- To mentor junior engineers and interns.
What will you be doing in this role? (Responsibilities)
As a Senior Layout Engineer you are expected to:
- Lead and/or Own all the aspects pertaining to the layout of a block/device, this includes but not limited to schedule, planning, tracking and communicating the layout milestones, floorplan, power-plan, constraint management, layout, verification, extraction, drive and attend reviews, interface with assembly team for package requirements, interface with the fab , for tapeout/PG,
- Develop individual block layout specification based on top level layout requirements.
- Aggressively drive area reduction, metal usage reduction while meeting EM and thermal capability
- Work on cutting edge package developments including Hotrod-QFN, Thin-SOTs and VSSOPs
- Guide the design team on layout DFM constraints like matching, parasitics, EM, ESD, Latch-up, WPE, LoD etc.
- Aggressively drive productivity improvement initiatives through automation, flow-methodologies improvements, checklists etc.
- Push the envelope on fab. process capabilities by working with process team for waivers, customizing verification rule decks and/or process flavors
- Push the envelope on assembly capabilities by working with packing team for new package development, optimize layout to fit in to multiple packages
- Write custom verification checks to enhance quality and/or reduce verification turn-around time
- Coach/Mentor junior team members
Minimum requirements:
- Minimum education (ie bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering)
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in Analog Layout Design
Preferred qualifications:
Tools:
- Fully conversant with Virtuoso LE/XLS, Assura/Calibre/Hercules for verification and extraction, basic knowledge of perl/skill/shell scripting desirable.
- Must have done few blocks from floorplan to tape-out/PG
Layout Basics:
- Block/Toplevel Layout (Floorplanning, Power Planning, Bump planning, Clock route planning)
- Device Layout (Knowledge of best layout practices for minimizing impacts of process mismatches through various matching techniques like common centroid, inter-digitation, addition of dummies etc, matching vs. area tradeoffs, best practices for BJTs, MOS, Resistor layout. Must have completed the layout of basic building blocks like BG, TSD, POR, Oscillators, LDO, IOs etc)
- Interconnect Design (Techniques for EM & IR Drop mitigation, Parasitics minimization, Matching for R/L/C, Crosstalk Mitigation through shielding/isolation etc, Antenna Effect mitigation, Step Coverage/Density effect mitigation)
- ESD & Latch-up (Knowledge of impact of bus resistances, ESD transistor/interconnect DRC, EM constraints, effective guard-ring techniques )
- Noise (Knowledge of and techniques to reduce noise coupling and/or generation through Substrate taps, Guard rings, Shielding, Decoupling Caps, Bondwires, DNW Isolation, Substrate Coupling etc)
Behavioral:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and should be a good team player
- Demonstrate an attitude with highest levels of integrity and commitment to success. Every assignment small or big needs to be driven with a complete ownership mindset
Why TI?
- Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
- We’re different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
- Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us.
About Texas Instruments
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.
Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment.
If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition.
