Package Design Engineer

Senior Engineer, Package Design – Milpitas, CA

Description

Socionext America Inc. (SNA) is an innovative enterprise that designs, develops, and delivers System-on-Chip solutions to customers worldwide. The company focuses on AR/VR, ADAS, imaging, networking, data storage, and other dynamic technologies that drive today’s leading-edge applications. Socionext combines world-class expertise, experience, and an extensive IP portfolio to provide exceptional solutions and ensure a better quality of experience for customers. Founded in 2015, Socionext Inc. is headquartered in Yokohama and has offices in Japan, Asia, the United States, and Europe to lead its product development and sales activities.

We are seeking a Senior Engineer, Package Design to work from our Milpitas, CA office.

Responsibilities

The Package Engineering function provides support, expertise, and insight to the Silicon device development team through preliminary activities of package selection, packaging routing techniques, and necessary modeling and simulation work. The position involves diverse responsibilities, including evaluation of new packaging technology, package recommendation for custom devices, substrate design support, and device/package qualification. You will report to the Director of Package Design (USA) and work closely with the Package/Manufacturing team in our parent company’s headquarters in Japan and Marketing and Engineering teams located in our Milpitas office during the pre/post sales process.

This position requires experience in the Fabless semiconductor model with a broad knowledge of package technology and manufacturing. Successful candidates will have a deep understanding of a variety of IC package technologies, including high-performance build-up substrates, flip chip assembly, or 2.5D packaging. Knowledge of Chiplet technology, Optical integrated packages, and experience in extracting/simulating package designs for SI and PI using tools such as HFSS, ADS, POWER SI, and other leading tools are essential.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or other semiconductor packaging related discipline
• MS is preferred

Required Experience and Skills

• 8 to 10 years of experience in semiconductor packaging design, modeling, and simulations
• Record of success in a cross-functional team environment
• Good experience with SI/PI tools for package level extraction/simulation
• Ability to work with Package Layout engineers
• Strong presentation and communication skills

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Good knowledge of IC package materials and manufacturing
• Hands-on package design; high-speed SI and PI, die and package decoupling caps optimizations, package and PCB SI and PI Characterizations, impedance verification, high frequency s-parameters extraction, Hspice model, package Hspice and RLC model extraction and designs
• Hands-on high-speed package and PCB design: high-speed Serdes 112 Gbps, PCIeX5 and 6, LPDDR4,5, Ethernet 25 GBps, power aware SI/PI analysis, up to 40 GHZ s-parameters extraction and verification
• Packaging high-speed interconnections timing analyses, eye-diagram and jitter budgeting calculation following the LPDDR JEDEC spec, or other high-speed frequency domain s-parameters extraction following the base Spec of high-speed interconnect
• Hands-on PCB design; SI, PI analyses, decoupling caps optimizations, SI and PI Characterization and extractions, impedance verification, s-parameters verifications with lab measurements, Hspice model, PCB RLC model extraction and designs
• Routing analyst, chip bumps analyses and package ball analyses
• Package material characterization frequency dependent model; skin effects, smoothness, roughness, dielectric loss, and dielectric constant
• PCB material characterization frequency dependent; routing degree of freedom
• Time domain analyses and jitter budgeting for PCIe2/3/4/5, Serdes 112 GBps, Ethernet 25 Gbps, LPDDR4/5X MIPI, high-speed frequency signaling
• Time domain analyses and budgeting model for LPDDR 3/4/5, LPDDRX 3/4/5/6
• Bathtub curve and BER analyses of high-speed signaling
• DDR frequency and time domains model and jitter analyses and path findings to improve package and PCB layout and improve high-speed interconnections
• Clock jitter analyses, routing, clock tree analyses
• Simulating multi-physics electro-thermal analysis
• Collateral packaging manufacturing and assembly rules
• Chip and package Reliability analyses
• Die+Pkg+pcb PDN model time and frequency, Impedance profile, AC droop, DC drop DC, etc.
• IR drop, and CPM (chip power model) die model using Redhawk and other tools

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $160,000.00 - $210,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person