Careers
Ascend Microsystems is seeking skilled and success driven engineers to join our team developing highest performance innovative and advanced digital, mixed-signal and configurable memory solutions employing the most advanced semiconductor technologies and EDA tools. The environment is dynamic with opportunity to learn and contribute. All team members will be fully empowered to make decisions within the scope of their job function, and will be expected to be relentlessly focused on achieving project goals no matter what the obstacles may be.
Ascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We offer industry competitive salaries, medical and other benefits. The company provides the opportunity to work with the latest tools and leading edge technology nodes and to learn from the best engineering minds from US/Silicon Valley and elsewhere.
Career Opportunities
01.
Senior SoC/ASIC Physical Design Engineer
- At least 3+ years of experience in Physical Design
- Hands-on in Physical Design Implementation using Synopsys Tools (ICC/ICC2) or equivalent Industry Standard
- Hands-on Experience in closure of Physical Verification requirements – DRC/ANT/LVS
- Good understanding of STA requirements
- Comfortable in one or more scripting languages like Perl/Unix/Tcl
- Verilog RTL coding with good logic design background are preferred.
- Test bench development, formal verification and any verification experience are also preferred.
- Candidate must possess at least Bachelor’s Degree/Post Graduate Diploma/Professional Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) or equivalent. MSEE is preferred
02.
Senior SRAM Design Engineer
- At least 3 Year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
- Candidate must possess at least Bachelor’s Degree/Post Graduate Diploma/Professional Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) or equivalent, preferably with specialization in Microelectronics.
- Other key requirements are: Fundamental understanding of technology tradeoffs in deep sub-micron design
- Good knowledge of MOS transistor physics, IC layout skills is a plus, SRAM design skills
- Skilled in transistor level spice simulation and characterization, Linux programming skills
- Candidate must possess at least Bachelor’s Degree/Post Graduate Diploma/Professional Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) or equivalent.
03.
ASIC Test and Validation Engineer
- At least 2 Year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
- Experienced in HP/Verigy/Advantest 93K tester
- Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, simulation and test benches, Memory test algorithms,
- Useful experience: Memory BIST testing; Scan and ATPG tools
- Candidate must possess at least Bachelor’s Degree/Post Graduate Diploma/Professional Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) or equivalent.
04.
Product and Test Development Engineer (IO validation)
- At least 3 year(s) of working experience in the related field.
- Some level of experience in Advantest 93K tester.
- Must be proficient in using bench equipment such as oscilloscope, digital multimeter, pulse generator and etc.
- LabView experience is an added advantage.
- Candidate must possess at least Bachelor’s Degree/Post Graduate Diploma/Professional Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) or equivalent.
- Perl and TCL scripting experience will be added advantage.
- Required language: English
05.
PCB and Signal Integrity Engineer
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- At least 3+ years of relevant experience
- Experience in analog and digital system design
- Experience in electromagnetic theory and circuit analysis
- Experience in IC packaging and PCB design for signal integrity
- Experience with PCB Design tools, such as Altium, etc.
- Experience in FEM and SPICE modeling and simulation
- Experience with scripting and programming e.g., Python, TCL, or C/C++
- Ability to use lab equipment, scopes and analyzers, for test and debug
- Candidate must possess at least Bachelor’s Degree/ Post Graduate Diploma/ Professional Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronic) or equivalent.
- Required language: English