{"id":216335,"date":"2026-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/jobs\/senior-custom-design-engineer-512190\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T21:07:54","slug":"senior-custom-design-engineer-512190","status":"publish","type":"jobs","link":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/us\/jobs\/senior-custom-design-engineer-512190\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Custom Design Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">My client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Custom Design Engineer to join their innovative team in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. This role offers a unique opportunity to design and deliver high-performance, low-power SRAM and custom-digital sub-systems that form the backbone of cutting-edge compute-in-memory technology. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in architecture, circuit implementation, verification, and silicon correlation for advanced nodes, including sub-5 nm technologies. This is a challenging and rewarding position for a professional with a passion for advanced circuit design and optimisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\"><strong>Responsibilities<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">As a Senior Custom Design Engineer, your key responsibilities will include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Designing and verifying embedded SRAM or custom digital blocks, such as caches, register files, datapath, and datapath-adjacent interfaces<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Optimising performance, power, and area (PPA) on advanced nodes, addressing variation and stability closure, corners, Monte Carlo simulations, and power reduction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Defining clean digital boundaries and timing budgets to ensure seamless integration into a digital-on-top flow<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Planning and executing silicon correlation, including bring-up, characterization benches, analysis of ATE data, and resolving errata<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Collaborating with layout teams on floorplanning, guarding, shielding, and routing topology, as well as resolving EM\/IR issues<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Enhancing methodologies through scripting for characterization, regression, and reporting (using Python or Tcl), and contributing to specifications, checklists, and reusable collateral<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\"><strong>Qualifications<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">To be successful in this role, you should possess the following qualifications:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">A Master\u2019s or PhD degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">A minimum of 5 years of experience in custom digital, analog, or SRAM design<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Proven ownership of complete design cycles for sub-blocks<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Strong expertise in high-performance and low-power circuit design on FinFET nodes, including bitcell stability and periphery trade-offs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Excellent communication skills with the ability to define and articulate clear interfaces and constraints across teams<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">A self-directed, organized, and delivery-oriented approach to work<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">If you are a motivated professional with a passion for innovation and excellence in custom design engineering, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us in shaping the future of compute-in-memory technology!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">For more information and to apply, please contact Ane @ IC Resources with your CV and a time for a short initial call.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Custom Design Engineer to join their innovative team in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. This role offers a unique opportunity to design and deliver high-performance, low-power SRAM and custom-digital sub-systems that form the backbone of cutting-edge compute-in-memory technology. 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