Principal Engineer- Airbag Safety ASIC Design

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We are currently hiring for a great company in Farmington Hills, Michigan. This company is driven on maintaining a competitive advantage in the automotive industry.  One of their tops goals is to help keep people safer!  Our client is known for creating intelligent systems that enhance the safety of pedestrians, drivers and passengers by combining active and passive technologies.

The responsibilities for a Principal Engineer in the Semiconductor Core Development team include the development of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Application Specific Standard Products (ASSP) for the Airbag electronics products.

Responsibilities:

•Work within the ASIC team while developing expertise and ownership of key ASIC circuit blocks.

•Architectural development and specification construction

•Functional and safety verification including developing test requirements, testing and test oversight.

•Work with teams to guide, review, and approve design implementation activities, perform safety analysis, confirm specification compliance, resolve issues, and support device returns analysis.

•Working with engineers to gather requirements, provide development and integration support.

•Establish strategic plans in the area of ASIC by participatiing in cross organizational teams to establish.

•Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering required. Master’s degree preferred.

•5 + years of mixed signal ASIC development/design and/or automotive electronic design experience experience with automotive ASIC, ASSP, or FPGA development preferred.

•Strong laboratory skills with experience interfacing to embedded systems.

•Experience with validation of analog and digital circuits/systems.

•Experience with automotive safety methods (FMEA, FTA) and familiarity with functional safety standard ISO 26262 highly preferred.

•Highly motivated and able to work with little direct oversight in a collaborative environment.

•Strong time management skills.

•Excellent communication/networking skills.

•Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

•Proficient using spreadsheets, word processing, simulation/analysis software, and ECAD tools.

•Experience managing subcontracted engineering resources (e.g. for analysis and verification work) desired.

•Familiarity with Hardware Description Languages such as VHDL or Verilog and verification/validation of ASIC design desired

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