Working Student - Chip Design & Physical Implementation Support(m/w/x)

Working Student (all genders) - Chip Design & Physical Implementation Support at Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS | softgarden The Backend team within the department Integrated Digital Systems is responsible for **transforming a digital circuit design (RTL) into a physical chip** layout that can be fabricated by a semiconductor foundry. The backend team ensures the chip can be manufactured, meets performance specs, and is reliable. Here you can contribute: * **Deepen your expertise** by learning and optimizing our physical implementation methodologies. * **Improve internal workflows** by developing and optimizing processes. * **Support** the quality management and project leads, gaining valuable insights into design processes. * You are currently **studying** electrical engineering, communications engineering, microelectronics, physics, or a comparable technical field of study. * You have **basic knowledge** of Linux/UNIX, TCL/TK, and Python. * You are **interested** in **chip design** **methodology** and the **digital physical implementation** using CMOS technologies. Ideally, you already have some initial experience in this area. * **Organize your schedule**: Benefit from flexible working hours that are perfectly compatible with your studies. * **Become part of a creative team**: experience an open and collegial working atmosphere in which your ideas are valued. * **Variety that inspires**: Look forward to varied tasks that inspire and challenge you. * **Play an active role in shaping the future**: Take part in application-oriented research and put your theoretical knowledge into practice. * **Innovations that inspire:** work on exciting and forward-looking projects that make a real difference. We will agree your start date and weekly working hours with you individually (as a working student **16** to **20** hours per week). You can reduce your hours before exams and increase them during semester breaks. You can set your working days flexibly. After your studies, there are attractive opportunities to join the institute on a full-time or part-time basis. We value and promote the diversity of our employees' skills and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, sexual orientation and identity. Severely disabled people are given preference if they are equally qualified.