Senior Physical Design Engineer

About the job

Join a semiconductor company that develops high-performance computing (HPC) solutions for artificial intelligence (AI) and other computationally intensive workloads.

As a Senior Physical Design Engineer, you'll participate in the physical design of the product, leading key back-end projects. This involves collaborating with external developers, performing critical in-house tasks, and driving aggressive initiatives to achieve challenging area, timing, and layout targets. You will be central to the design efforts and significantly influence product architecture.

What You'll Be Doing

• Generate and analyze critical block- and chip-level static timing constraints
• Spec and define full chip floor plan, including pin placement, partitions, and power grid
• Develop and validate high-performance, low-power clock network guidelines
• Perform critical block-level place and route and create designs that meet timing, area, and power constraints
• Review the vendors’ physical design verification flow at chip and block level and guide other designers on how to fix LVS and DRC violations
• Work with vendors on defining physical design methodologies and assist in flow development for chip integration

Requirements

• At least 6 years of physical design experience, leading complex process designs
• In-depth knowledge of process and circuit design
• Knowledge of physical design industry standards and practices, including physically aware synthesis, floor planning, CTS, place and route
• Understanding of scripting languages, such as Perl and Tcl
• Experience developing and implementing power-grid and clock specifications
• Good understanding of physical design verification methodology for debugging LVS and DRC issues at chip and block level

Job No. 415674

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