Principal IC Design Engineer

In April 2020, Applied Materials acquired Think Silicon®, a semiconductor technology portfolio company based in Greece. Think Silicon develops and licenses high-performance, ultra-low power Graphics Processing Units (GPU’s) and display controller technology for wearables, IoT, home appliances etc. Think Silicon's ambition is to become the leading low-power mobile graphics company in the world!
Based on our current growth we are now looking to expand our team! We are currently looking for:
Principal IC Design Engineer (Permanent / full time)
Location: Athens, Greece (in our Development center)
We offer a very generous re-location package to help you move/return to Greece.
The candidate will benefit from the new foreign tax residence incentive, granting an income tax exemption of 50%.
General Profile:
As a Principal IC Design Engineer, you will be recognized as an expert within the company, anticipating internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues, recommending process, product or service improvements. You will be able to solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. The successful candidate for this role will contribute to the development of functional strategy and lead project teams to achieve milestones and objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• As a Principal IC Design Engineer for Think Silicon, an Applied Materials Company, you will be requested to:
• Provide hardware design solutions for complex graphics and machine learning algorithms.
• Undertake the role of planning the development and verification activities for complex IP blocks using state-of-the-art methodologies.
• Collaborate with customer IC teams to reach successful integration of IP cores and tape-outs. Have deep expertise and ability to contribute to multiple technical areas of expertise and be able to lead chip design activities in at least one domain.
• Apply subject matter expertise to proactively address issues in own and adjacent design phase.
• Troubleshoot complex problems within a variety of steps in the IC design process under limited supervision. Provide guidance and consultation to others. Technical mentor for more junior members.
• Follow complex program schedules, budgets, and milestones and provide input and guidance on program deviations.
• Identify and propose solutions to complex challenges in cross-functional team environment.

Required skills:

• Expert knowledge on digital design: SoC integration, embedded CPU, bus-systems, peripherals, co-processors, memories, clock and power management, external interfaces, low power design, test and verification.
• Very good knowledge of ASIC design tool usage (front-end simulation and implementation) Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor.
• Experience with SystemVerilog / VHDL.
• Experience with C and embedded software programming.
• Linux environment, shell programming, revision control systems and scripting.

Preferred skills:

• Experience in a UVM verification environment.
• Experience with FPGA prototyping, test and verification.
• Gate Level Simulations (e.g. power aware verification or DfT).
• Be a hardware engineer expert in your field.
• Ability to demonstrate in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function.
• Conceptual and Innovative thinking to solves unique and complex problems.

Why choose Applied Materials?
When you work at Applied Materials / Think Silicon, in addition to a competitive salary, you have access to a wide range of benefits, including:

• Financial & Savings benefits,
• Health & Wellness,
• Paid time-off,
• Insurance & Income Protections
• Medical plan,
• Meal Allowance
• Development & Training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree
  Skills
  Years of Experience: 4 - 7 Years
  Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time
  Relocation Eligible: Yes
  Applied Materials is committed to diversity in its workforce including Equal Employment Opportunity for Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.