VLSI Backend Design Engineer

Job Details

Job Description:

Shape the Future of Technology with Intel!

Are you passionate about VLSI physical design and eager to work on cutting-edge technology?

Intel’s Process & Design Optimization group is looking for an experienced VLSI Backend Design Engineer to help drive innovation in chip design and process technology.

Join us and be a key player in optimizing performance, power, and efficiency for next-generation semiconductor technology!

Your Role

As a VLSI Backend Design Engineer, you will:

✔ Drive the physical design flow for complex VLSI chips, ensuring high performance and reliability.

✔ Develop and enhance physical design methodologies.

✔ Optimize power, performance, and area (PPA) using advanced techniques and industry-leading tools.

✔ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate and refine design specifications.

✔ Stay ahead of industry trends and innovations in VLSI physical design.

✔ Fine-tune logic design blocks to align with process and design goals.

✔ Conduct circuit and device-level analysis to evaluate and improve advanced technologies.

✔ Analyze process PPA and contribute to defining and optimizing semiconductor processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• 4+ years in VLSI physical design with a strong track record of successful projects.
• Expertise in placement, routing, and timing closure.
• Proficiency in industry-standard EDA tools (APR & Signoff).
• Hands-on experience with power, performance, and area (PPA) optimization.
• Familiarity with advanced technology nodes.
• Scripting skills in Python/TCL for automation and efficiency.
  
  

Job Type

Experienced Hire

Shift

Shift 1 (Israel)

Primary Location:

Israel, Haifa

Additional Locations:

Business Group

The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.