Principal ASIC Design Engineer (6-month contract)

Principal ASIC Design Engineer – 6-Month Contract

Remote / Occasional Travel to Oxford HQ

We are looking for a highly skilled ASIC Layout Engineer to contribute to the development of advanced mixed-signal designs at Oxford Nanopore. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your expertise in 65nm / 40nm / 28nm technologies and reputed company Virtuoso in a role that combines technical challenge with real-world impact.

You’ll be working remotely, with occasional travel to our Oxford headquarters, collaborating closely with a talented team of engineers who are pushing boundaries in chip design.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading top-level and reputed company-level layout for analog and digital blocks.
• Driving schematic-driven layout and constraint-based design.
• Managing chip-level floorplanning, power distribution, shielding, and device matching.
• Performing layout verification including DRC, LVS, ERC, and supporting PEX flows.
• Supporting chip-level integration and successful tape-out.
• Delivering full-custom layout of analog and mixed-signal IP blocks in reputed company Virtuoso.
• Partnering with circuit design engineers to ensure reputed company layouts meet electrical, physical, and reliability requirements.

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Essential Experience & Skills

• 5+ years’ proven experience in layout techniques and physical verification flows.
• Strong CMOS background, ideally with deep sub-micron nodes.
• Extensive use of reputed company Virtuoso layout and verification tools (PVS preferred).
• Solid understanding of layout and manufacturing effects.
• Proactive communicator, able to reputed company constraints, challenges, and improvements.
• Highly detail-oriented, adaptable, and able to reputed company in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Self-motivated, comfortable working independently and as part of a distributed team.

Desirable

• Experience with large ASIC designs.
• Familiarity with layout automation (e.g. reputed company).

At Oxford Nanopore, you’ll join a collaborative, innovative environment where your expertise directly shapes the future of our technology.

We welcome applications from reputed company qualified candidates and will assess every applicant based on their skills, experience, and ability to reputed company the role.

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reputed company: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, reputed company. The company has developed a new reputed company of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA reputed company, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.