Digital Design / Verification Engineer - Leuven (hybrid) - Freelance

Digital Design and Verification Engineer

Contract till end of 2025 + potential extensions

Leuven, Belgium (3 days onsite/week minimum)

The Personal Healthcare R&D team at our client in Leuven, develops application

specific IC’s for use in Hearing Aids and Implants, Wireless Personal Audio and Wearable Health monitoring IoT applications.

In order to complete the staffing of a new product development team, they are looking looks for an outstanding engineer, expert in the field of digital IC hardware design and/or verification.

Responsibilities

• As a digital designer

• Own the block from design specification to production, including support of the verification and validation teams to ensure that performance is met
• Minimize silicon area while reaching performance and power targets
• Interface to physical design, analog and firmware teams to provide support and guidance on the use of the digital block

• As a verification engineer

• Own the verification of a block, some subsystem part or some top level functions
• Detail the verification specification of the assigned testcases
• Implement the testcases using System Verilog, UVM, python, assertions, …
• Maximize the verification coverage of the design while focusing on execution time
• Maintain the regression suite
• Execute to meet challenging schedule while ensuring high quality
• Participate actively in peer reviews
• Interface with architects during design reviews, root-cause analysis and correction of issues
• Work within a design and/or verification team, and interact with other teams on the project (Analog, Firmware, Layout) to ensure the success of the overall product

Profile

• Master Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 5 years experience in the design and/or verification of digital blocks and IC’s
• Knowledge of low power design techniques
• Knowledge of audio processing and/or accelerators for artificial intelligence is a plus
• Proven track record in delivering working silicon for high volume products
• Demonstrate an innovative and creative attitude, taking initiative to propose and implement improvements
• Rigorous and methodical with good analytical skills for debugging issues in design and on silicon
• Familiarity with Cadence EDA simulation tools and Synopsys Spyglass
• Expert in VHDL, Verilog and/or SystemVerilog. Knowledge and experience of Python programming language is an asset
• You are a team player with excellent communication skills adapted to an international environment.
• You possess a hands on practical skills combined with electrical knowledge.
• You are fluent in English