Physical Design Engineer

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

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• Deeply understand what is involved in physical design

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• Running PD flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate PD flows,

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• improve CAD infrastructure

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• Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide Physical Design feedback to improve PPA

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• Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to PD

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• Optimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features

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• Accountable for block level closure

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• Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service

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You may be a good fit if you have

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• 5-10+ years of previous experience with PD

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• Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off

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• Experience with back-end design and timing closure on advanced process nodes (5nm

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• and below)

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• Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (ICC2, Fusion Compiler)

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• automated RTL-to-GDSII flows

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• Experience with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, etc.)

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• Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification,synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS,

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• routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis

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• Deeply creative and able to think from first principles

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Strong candidates may also have experience with

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• Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures

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• Ability to program with Python or another scripting language

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• Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding

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• Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments

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