Entry Level Logic Design Engineer

Introduction

IBM Infrastructure is a catalyst that makes the world work better because our clients demand it. Heterogeneous environments, the explosion of data, digital automation, and cybersecurity threats require hybrid cloud infrastructure that only IBM can provide.

Your ability to be creative, a forward-thinker and to focus on innovation that matters, is all support by our growth minded culture as we continue to drive career development across our teams. Collaboration is key to IBM Infrastructure success, as we bring together different business units and teams that balance their priorities in a way that best serves our client's needs.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Logic Design Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the end-to-end development of features with significant impact on our IBM z and Power Systems, IBM Storage and IBM Quantum Systems. From conceptualization to validation, you will be responsible for developing features, presenting proposed design elements, estimating efforts, and collaborating across various teams to ensure successful implementation.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Feature Development and Implementation : Develop features and propose architectures in high-level design discussions, ensuring alignment with project goals and customer requirements.
• Effort Estimation: Estimate the overall effort required for feature development, providing valuable input to project planning and scheduling.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with verification, physical design, test generation, and milli code teams to develop features, fostering cross-functional teamwork and synergy.
• Pre-Silicon Design Sign-off: Sign off on design during the pre-silicon phase, ensuring readiness for tape-out and fabrication.
• Post-Silicon Validation: Validate hardware functionality post-silicon, conducting thorough testing to ensure feature integrity and performance.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• Logic Design: Experience in logic design, demonstrating proficiency understanding in designing complex digital logic and systems.
• VLSI Design in VHDL/Verilog: Experience with VLSI design using hardware description languages such as VHDL or Verilog, enabling efficient implementation of digital logic.
• Processor Architecture Understanding: Good understanding of processor architectures, including RISC and CISC, facilitating the development of features tailored to specific processor requirements.
• Designer Simulations: Experience in developing and performing designer simulations, ensuring functionality and performance goals are met prior to silicon realization.
• Design Closure and Verification Coverage: Proven ability to drive design closure, including test plan reviews and verification coverage analysis, ensuring comprehensive validation of designs.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Power-Efficient Logic Design: Experience in designing power-efficient logic, optimizing designs for low power consumption without sacrificing performance.
• Physical Design and Timing Constraints: Understanding of physical design concepts and timing constraints, facilitating seamless integration with physical implementation and timing closure processes.
• Python Scripting: Proficiency in Python scripting, enabling automation of design tasks and enhancing productivity in design workflows.
• Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA): Experience in working with various types of FPGA systems and tools

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.