Senior Staff CAD Engineer

Marvell Technology•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

As a key CAD member of Marvell Central Engineering, you will play a leading role on developing next-generation automated design flow and add-on tools. You will have the opportunity to use your extensive design and CAD knowledge to define the whole organization's design methodology and work flow.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields and 4+ years of related professional experience or Master’s degree and/or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields with 3+ years of experience or equivalent professional experience in lieu of a formal degree
2+ years of recent experience with Cadence Innovus
Proven experience with advance nodes 5nm or below tape out.
Familiar with Finfet, Dual Patterning and ULV challenges.
Experience with Power Grid implementation and IR drop analysis
Solid understanding, at least at block level but preferably at SoC level of: Timing closure issues and ways to debug and fix them
Floorplaning and routability issues and ways to fix them
Power Grid design and validation
Various Clock synthesis schemes
SI, EM/IR, complex DRC rules
Power intent and Multiple power domains implementation.
High speed and low power implementation techniques/trade-offs.
Upstream/Downstream flow correlation
Good level of proficiency in Tcl scripting in the context of flow development
Demonstrate good analysis and problem-solving skills.
Out-of-the-box thinking
Team player with good verbal and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

Ability to run the following tasks is a plus: Gate-to-gate equivalence checking
Parasitic Extraction
STA
Physical Verification (at least DRC)
Early Rail Analysis, EM/IR flow knowledge
Experience with implementation exploration methods
Experience with EDA tool benchmarks

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain leading-edge P&R flows addressing the needs of Marvell’s various Business Units
Power Grid implementations for various tech nodes, making sure it meets IR drop requirements
Contribute to the deployment and support of these flows
Work in collaboration with the rest of the team to ensure optimal integration inside the overall CAD platform
Come-up with innovative solutions to ever-increasing design challenges
Keep up with process and tool evolutions
Interface with EDA vendors for optimal tool usage