Physical Design Engineer

Central Business Solutions • San Jose, CA

47d • Remote

About The Position

Develop and own physical design implementation of multi-hierarchy low-power designs including physical-aware logic synthesis, design for testability, floorplan, place and route, static timing analysis, IR Drop, EM, and physical verification in advanced technology nodes. Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution Deliver physical design of an end-to-end IP or integration of ASIC/SoC design

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, with 5 years of relevant physical design experience
• Strong understanding in the RTL2GDSII flow and design tapeouts in 16nm/14nm or below process technologies
• Experience with low power implementation, power gating, multiple voltage rails, strong UPF/CPF knowledge.
• Experience working with most EDA tools like DC/Genus, ICC2/Innovus, Primetime, Redhawk/Voltus, Calibre.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in running physical-aware logic synthesis and achieving optimal synthesis QoR on low power designs
• Knowledge of static timing analysis and concepts, defining timing constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions.
• Experience in Block-level and Full-chip floor-planning, power grid planning
• Experience with custom or regular clock tree synthesis implementation at block level or top level, and clock power reduction techniques.
• Experience with Python, TCL, Perl programming.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own physical design implementation of multi-hierarchy low-power designs including physical-aware logic synthesis, design for testability, floorplan, place and route, static timing analysis, IR Drop, EM, and physical verification in advanced technology nodes.
• Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution
• Deliver physical design of an end-to-end IP or integration of ASIC/SoC design

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level