Spring Co-Op - Digital IC Design (MM- 64000142)
Greensboro, North Carolina
Hardware & Software – Hardware /
Intern/Co-op /
On-site
At Cirrus Logic, mixed-signal engineering drives our company. We develop high-performance, low-power signal processing solutions, delivering innovative end-user experiences and solving difficult challenges for new generations of mobile and consumer devices. While breaking the innovation barrier, we have also built an award-winning company culture, thanks to our extraordinary workforce. Do you enjoy working alongside the industry's top engineers and solving sophisticated challenges for the world's top consumer brands? Join our team and help us continue to make this an exceptional place to work!
As a Digital Integrated-Circuit Design Intern, you will be part of a collaborative team developing high-performance, mixed-signal, integrated circuits, including those with innovative data converters, power converters, and a variety of other circuitry in advanced CMOS processes. You will participate in and benefit from our company values and culture that include innovation, collaboration, execution, and continuous improvement. You will play a meaningful role in developing next-generation devices and ensuring that leading consumer electronics manufacturers can easily integrate our devices into their products.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the design and development of a variety of digital and DSP IP blocks
- Model control loops and signal processing algorithms using tools such as Matlab and Simulink
- Contribute to conversion of subsystems into real-world designs for integration into final product
- Evaluate, learn, and debug devices in the lab after design
- Support post-silicon activities including product validation, characterization, and production test
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Master’s or PhD candidate in electrical engineering or computer engineering
- Experience writing Verilog RTL
- Familiarity with the digital design flow steps including architecture, design, validation, and design integration
- Familiarity with high-level modeling tools such as Matlab, Simulink, or similar
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong collaboration through oral and written communication
- Available for full-time, in-office employment, hybrid work (up to 5 days per week)
Preferred Skills & Qualifications:
- Knowledge of discrete-time and continuous-time signal processing
- Knowledge of DSP algorithms, e.g. digital filters (IIR & FIR) and mixers, adaptive signal processing, FFT, etc.
- Familiarity with ARM or RISC-V based SoC architectures
- Familiarity with back-end flow including synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and/or design for test (scan)
- Perl and/or Python programming
This position is located in Greensboro, NC. Must be available for the Spring 2025 semester.
Diversity drives innovation at Cirrus Logic. Different approaches, ideas and points of view are both valued and respected, and employees are rewarded for their skills, experience and performance. Additionally, Cirrus Logic is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, pregnancy status, marital status, gender, age, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
