ASIC/SOC CAD Engineer
About The Position
MatX's mission is to make the world’s best AI models run as efficiently as allowed by physics, bringing the world years ahead in AI quality and availability. MatX is seeking a Physical Design CAD Engineer to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. The ASIC/SOC Physically Design CAD Engineer will be responsible for creating and maintaining our CAD flow and infrastructure to produce performant and functionally correct silicon for MatX products across compute, memory management, high-speed connectivity, and other key technologies in leading-edge process nodes.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum 8 years of industry experience in ASIC Physical Design
- Great interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Perl, Python, and TCL
- Expertise developing/using industry-standard ASIC tools and methodologies for construction (e.g. partitioning, floorplanning, synthesis, place & route, clocking) and sign-off (equivalency, extraction, timing, power estimation, EMIR, physical verification)
Nice To Haves
- 8 years of industry experience in ASIC Physical Design and/or CAD
- Experience with EDA license management, LSF and equivalent job schedulers, and cloud-based silicon development is a big plus
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve MatX's Physical Design flow, from RTL to GDSII flow, including construction and sign-off
- Automate back-end runs, create reports, post-process logs, generate metrics, and extract insights
- Evaluate, select, and deploy EDA tools and methodologies to produce best-in-class Performance-Power-Area results
- Work with EDA tool vendors to drive issues and enhancements to closure
- Train and support flow users and resolve any issues they might face
- Manage licenses, compute, and storage and optimize for efficiency and cost
- May include some development and support of the front-end CAD flow
Benefits
- 4 weeks PTO (accrued)
- 12 company Holidays
- up to 3 weeks remote work
- Company-subsidized Medical (Kaiser or Anthem) for employees & dependents
- Guardian Dental and Vision insurances for employee & dependents
- life insurance (employee only)
- HSA and FSA offerings via Lively
- Roth IRA/ 401K (or both) retirement plans
- up to 5% company contribution to 401K
- 100% company-paid life insurance (up to $300K)
- long-term disability insurances
- $1500 Professional Development Budget (per year)
- Onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday
- Commute on company Uber account, or reimburse train rides
- $50/mo to use on the perk you value most
- $35/mo for cellular reimbursement
- $40/mo for wifi reimbursement
- 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP
- Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood
- 10 weeks pregnancy disability leave
- flexible return-to-work hours
- Benepass reproductive health & parental benefit
- Up to $20K/month for AI Resources
- Dedicated internal AI Tooling Team
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
