Job Title: Senior Physical Design Engineer
Location: San Jose, CA or Remote (work from any US location)
US work status: US Citizen or US Permanent Resident only
Responsibilities:
• Define PD requirements by working closely with the front-end team, understand the chip architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle
• Physical design tasks such as synthesis, PnR, timing closure, area improvement, floorplanning, clocking, I/O planning and power optimization
• Discussions with 3rd party IP providers, foundry partners and design services
• End to end tasks from flow development to sign-off
• Deploy innovative techniques for improving power, performance and area of the design, drive experiments with RTL, and evaluate synthesis, timing and power results
Requirements:
• BSEE with 7 years of industry experience.
• Hands-on experience with synthesis, block and chip level implementation with industry standard PnR flows and tools
• Strong experience in SOC/ASIC/GPU/CPU design flows on taped out designs, expertise in timing closure at block/chip levels and ECO flows
• Experience with back-end design tools such as PrimeTime, Innovus, RedHawk, etc.
• Knowledge of low-power design flows such as power gating, multi-Vt and voltage scaling
• Strong programming skills in Tcl/Perl/Shell/Python
• Excellent understanding of logic design fundamentals and gate/transistor level implementation
• Exposure to DFT is an asset
• Prior experience working on high performance technology nodes and understanding of deep sub-micron design problems/solutions
• Strong problem solving and debug skills across various levels of design hierarchies
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The anticipated annual base salary for this position is between $130,000 - $180,000 which also includes a comprehensive benefits package.