Physical Design Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Deeply understand what is involved in physical design
• Running PD flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate PD flows,
• improve CAD infrastructure
• Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide Physical Design feedback to improve PPA
• Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to PD
• Optimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features
• Accountable for block level closure
• Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service

You may be a good fit if you have

• 5-10+ years of previous experience with PD
• Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off
• Experience with back-end design and timing closure on advanced process nodes (5nm
• and below)
• Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (ICC2, Fusion Compiler)
• automated RTL-to-GDSII flows
• Experience with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, etc.)
• Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification,synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS,
• routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis
• Deeply creative and able to think from first principles

Strong candidates may also have experience with

• Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures
• Ability to program with Python or another scripting language
• Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding
• Startup experience or comfort working in fast-paced environments