ASIC/SOC Silicon Physical Design Engineer

MatXMountain View, CA
Hybrid

About The Position

MatX is seeking silicon physical design engineers to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. Silicon Physical Design Engineers will be responsible for developing 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 driving Physical Design construction and sign-off for blocks, subsystems, and/or fullchip from early RTL to production silicon
  • Experience collaborating with Design, Verification, and DFT teams to structure, partition, and optimize designs for PPA through sign-off

Nice To Haves

  • 8 years of industry experience in ASIC Physical Design
  • Experience working with third-party Design Services partners

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to MatX’s Physical Design methodology to achieve a scalable solution across block, subsystem, and fullchip designs from RTL to GDSII
  • Own entire subsystems or subsets and/or chip-level Physical Design deliverables including but not limited to: construction (partitioning, floorplanning, synthesis, place & route, clocking) and sign-off (equivalency, extraction, timing, power estimation, EMIR, physical verification)
  • Plan and drive intermediate and sign-off reviews.
  • Report execution progress towards various silicon milestones including design freeze and tapeout
  • Work closely with the Design, DFT, and other Physical Design co-owners of the subsystem/block in question to deliver best-in-class Performance-Power-Area results

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
  • Company Uber account for commute
  • Reimbursement for train rides
  • $50/mo for perk
  • $35/mo for cellular
  • $40/mo for wifi
  • 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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