In April 2020, Applied Materials acquired Think Silicon®, a semiconductor technology portfolio company based in Greece. Think Silicon develops and licenses high-performance, ultra-low power Graphics Processing Units (GPU’s) and display controller technology for wearables, IoT, home appliances etc. Think Silicon's ambition is to become the leading low-power mobile graphics company in the world!

Based on our current growth we are now looking to expand our team! We are currently looking for:

Principal IC Design Engineer (Permanent / full time)

Location : Athens / Patras, Greece (in our Development Center)

• We offer a very generous re-location package to help you move/return to Greece.
• The candidate will benefit from the new foreign tax residence incentive, granting an income tax exemption of 50%.

Key Responsibilities

• Anticipate business challenges and/or regulatory issues
• Recommend process, product or service improvements
• Solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Contribute to multiple technical areas of expertise and lead chip design activities in at least one domain
• Plan the development and verification activities for complex IP blocks
• Provide hardware design solutions for complex graphics and machine learning algorithms.
• Lead project teams to achieve milestones and objectives
• Collaborate with customer IC teams to reach successful integration of IP cores and tape-outs.
• Act as Technical mentor for more junior members
• Represent the organization in internal and external technical communications, conferences etc.
• Follow complex program schedules, budgets, and milestones and provide guidance on program deviations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Expert knowledge of HDL design: SoC integration, embedded CPU, bus-systems, peripherals, co-processors, memories, clock- and power management, external interfaces, Low power design, test and verification.
• Very good knowledge of ASIC design tool usage (front-end simulation and implementation) Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor.
• Experience with SystemVerilog / VHDL.
• Experience with C and embedded software programming.
• Experience with FPGA prototyping, test and verification.
• Linux environment, shell programming, revision control systems and scripting (bash/tcshell, TCL, Perl, Python)­­.
• Experience in the following IP design: GPU/DSP, hardware accelerators, co-processors, background in computer graphics.
• Gate Level Simulations (e.g. power aware verification or DfT).
• Experience in a UVM verification environment.
• Formal methodologies/tools (Jasper, Onespin, VC formal).

COMPETENCIES

• Leadership in projects with notable risk and complexity.
• Applies innovative thinking to solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business.
• Knowledgeable of functional policies and industry guidelines which impact the direction and resource allocation.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view.

Education: Master's Degree

Years of Experience: 7 - 10 years

Travel: Yes, 10% of the time

Relocation eligible: Yes

Why choose Applied Materials?

Benefits

When you work at Applied Materials / Think Silicon, in addition to a competitive salary, you have access to a wide range of benefits, including

• Financial & Savings benefits
• Health & Wellness
• Paid time-off
• Insurance & Income Protections
• Medical plan
• Meal Allowance
• Development & Training opportunities.

Applied Materials is committed to diversity in its workforce including equal employment opportunity for minorities, females, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.