Senior Physical Design Engineer

About the job

Join an Israeli startup that specializes in developing blockchain and privacy technologies, particularly focusing on semiconductor design for cryptographic processes

What You'll Be Doing

• Floor Planning Top to Bottom & Bottom up – Block level. Exploring different floorplan structures to achieve both the best area & ease of convergence.
• Generate high-quality PnR results for one or more digital blocks by applying engineering best practices.
• Optimize designs based on key metrics, including power, area, and performance trade-off analyses.
• Drive sign-off timing convergence for high-performance designs at the block level, including DRC and LVS signoff
• Analyze power integrity (EMIR) results of blocks and apply corrective measures to resolve identified issues.
• Collaborating closely with frontend, verification, architecture, physical design, and analog teams.
• Work closely with EDA (Electronic Design Automation) vendors on the latest tool feature development and qualification.

Requirements

BSC or MSc in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

4+ years’ experience with physical design

Expert knowledge of the entire backend design flows from RTL to GDS

Power user of EDA tools from Synopsys (DC/ICC2/FC/PT/STAR-RC/FM), Cadence (EDI/Innovus/Voltus).

Experience in Clock/Power Distribution, P&R, Timing closure, RC Extraction, and physical verification (DRC/LVS) on advanced technology nodes.

Experience with high-speed serial interfaces such as PCIe, and DDR- an advantage

Experience with low-power design techniques such as multiple power domains, power switches, level shifting, isolation, and dynamic voltage/frequency scaling using Unified Power Format (UPF)- an advantage

Job No. 416944

CV to hilas@nisha.co.il