Your mission

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Senior Digital ASIC Design Engineer (100%) with a strong interest in medical devices, affinity for technology and the will to develop a career on the edge of medicine and technology. As we are a start-up, drive and passion for what we work towards, has to be a given.   
Are you ready to make a real impact and ultimately save lives?  

Activities: 

• Support the system design and hardware development (both in house and with partners) 
• Support firmware and embedded software design and development (SoCs, FPGAs) 
• Lead digital design (RTL design): ASIC and FPGA; specification and implementation 
• Responsible for synthesis, place and route, timing closure and formal verification 
• Support hiring of junior staff 
• Bring up design infrastructure (digital design tools / Cadence) 
• Establish methods for design verification: develop test plans, test benches and automated testing procedures 
• Support HW bring-up (together with Analog-mixed-signals ASIC design engineers) 
• Support product development and system integration (in a regulated environment) 

Your profile

• PhD or master's in electrical engineering or equivalent 
• At least 6+ years of experience after graduation (industry experience preferred) 
• Experienced in technical leadership, coaching, onboarding   
• Excellent knowledge and experience with the entire digital design flow: definition of specifications, RTL verification and synthesis, place and route, timing closure, power estimation, etc. 
• Proficient with standard hardware description languages (Verilog/VHDL, SystemVerilog) 
• Excellent knowledge and use of industry standards ASIC design tools/flow (Cadence preferred) 
• Experience with programming, scripting and automation languages (C/C++, Python, shell) 
• Experience with bring up and characterization of ASICs 
• English written and spoken 
• Independent and strong in teamwork / team communications 
• Experience with CMOS image/optical sensors is a strong plus 
• Experience with standard interface protocols (I2C, SPI, MIPI, LVDS) is a strong plus 
• Experience with embedded software, HW/SW partitioning (preferably Xilinx SoC) is a plus 
• Experience with embedded Linux and related build tools (Petalinux, yocto, bitbake) is a plus 
• Experience with product development in a regulated environment (ideally ISO 13485) is a plus 

About us

Spiden is a Swiss medtech venture with the vision to use state-of-the-art detection techniques to continuously monitor and learn from a wide range of vital medical indicators, allowing to improve your individual health.