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IBM Hardware Developer - Analog layout in Bangalore, India

Introduction

As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you'll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today's market.

Your Role and Responsibilities

India Systems Development Lab (ISDL) is part of IBM Systems world-wide technology development lab. Established in 1996, the Lab is headquartered in India's Silicon Valley and startup hub - Bengaluru, with a strong presence in Pune and Hyderabad. Developers at ISDL deliver technology innovations across the entire Systems portfolio - z Systems, Power / OpenPOWER Systems and Storage. The team here works across the entire stack from processor design, firmware, operating system to software defined storage. The lab also focuses on innovations, thanks to the creative energies of the teams. The lab has contributed over 400+ patents in cutting edge technologies and inventions so far.

While computing veers towards cognitive, cloud, mobile, social, and security, the lab has significantly contributed to not just new products focused in these areas, but has also ushered in new development models such as Agile, Design Thinking and DevOps. The engineer hired will be working on Analog and IO high speed layouts for our projects working directly with designers from US/Germany.

Responsibilities

This role does design and layout of complex VLSI (very large scale integration) circuits using graphic editing tools in Analog domain. A major portion of the job is in creation of new physical design data from concepts, partial schematics or a working knowledge of overall requirements. Responsibilities include checking the design integrity with respect to semiconductor ground rules and the logical function of the circuit. Symbolic circuit data (schematics) are converted to physical shapes which represent the semiconductor process. The role ranges from manual shapes and checking tool manipulations to extended team coordination and methodology creation. The employee guides functional objectives or technologies.

Skills:

  • Environment:

Professional knowledge related to incumbent's function/business unit and its processes.

  • Communication/Negotiation:

Advise other professionals. Effectively utilize group dynamics. Negotiate to define approaches and goals. Able to quickly ramp up on the layout flow

  • Problem Solving:

Recognize complex problems related to functional objectives. Analyze situations and implement solutions, or develop new system elements, procedures or processes. Creativity and judgment applied to developmental work on different projects within the business environment.

  • Contribution/Leadership:

Provides ongoing technical /operational guidance to lead professional work teams, conducts special projects, or manages department(s) (national or international). Understand department/ functional mission and vision. Defines and decides objectives within specified business concept or project and may have responsibility for tools and assigned resources. Utilizes expertise to directly influence people outside department or function. Sometimes no precedent exists.

  • Impact on Business/Scope:

Accountable for department results and for activities and/or projects involving multi-functional teams. Regularly participates in overall functional program planning. Activities are subject to business measurements, impact customer satisfaction, and impact project costs or expenses.

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 9+ years of experience

  • Hands on work on custom layout for analog blocks like High Speed SerDes and General purpose IO designs with Cadence Virtuoso on latest technologies like 5nm and below and also take leadership roles in delivery of IPs 2. Work on Floor planning, power design, signal routing strategy, EMIR awareness and parasitic optimisations

  • Understand and apply analog Layout techniques to ensure the design meets performance with minimum possible area and good yield.

  • Participate in building and enhancing layout flow for faster, higher quality design process.

  • Checking physical verifications like DRC/LVS/ERC/ANT/DFM and other IBM internal checks

  • Collaborate with Circuit Designers to solve challenging problems

  • Writing SKILL scripts to automate repetitive tasks

  • Work with Place and Route engineer to integrate custom macros into top level.

  • Able to perform design reviews across global team

  • Work closely with required global teams to ensure the success of the whole product. 11. Leadership in delivery of macros we plan to own from India

  • Job requirements:

  • Experience in doing layouts for analog blocks like SerDes, ADCs, DACs, LDOs, PLLs, BGAP & amplifiers etc.

  • Experience in designing layouts for high-speed circuits is a plus.

  • Layout experience in the following technology nodes: 3nm, 5nm and 7nm FinFET.

  • Good team worker with multi-discipline, multi-cultural and multi-site environments

  • Strong fundamental knowledge in semiconductor device physics, layout principles, IC reliability and failure mechanisms

  • Good problem-solving skills are essential where problems are analysed upfront, identifying gaps, and providing optimum solutions

  • Knowledge in Skill/perl/tcl/Python scripting is a plus.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Automation skills in PERL ,SKILL and/or TCL/Python

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This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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