ASIC Engineer Physical Design

Hiring : ASIC Engineer Physical Design

Location: Bay Area, USA

Employment Type: Full-Time

Responsibilities:

• Develop and own physical design implementation of multi-hierarchy low-power and

high-performance designs, including physical-aware logic synthesis, floorplan, place and

route, clock tree synthesis, static timing analysis, IR drop, EM, and physical verification

in advanced technology nodes

• Resolve design and flow issues related to the physical design, identify potential solutions,

and drive execution

• Deliver physical design of an end-to-end IP or integration of ASIC/SoC design and point

out lower power and higher performance trade-offs

• Define and implement schemes, including semi-custom placement and routing, to

improve performance and power

• Work with the RTL design team to understand partition architecture and drive physical

aspects early in the design cycle

• Interface with the RTL design team to drive design modifications to resolve

congestion/timing issues and implement functional ECO's

• Use EDA tool-based programming and scripting techniques to automate and improve

throughput and quality

• Interact with tool vendors to drive tool fixes and flow improvements. Perform tool

evaluations of new vendor tools and functions

minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field,

or equivalent practical experience

• 8+ years of experience in physical design and timing closure

• Knowledge of RTL2GDSII flow and design tape-outs in 5nm or below process

technologies

• Experience with EDA tools like DC/Genus, Innovus/ICC2, Primetime, Redhawk/Voltus,

or Calibre

• Hands-on experience in SoC floor planning, place & route, power and clock distribution,

and timing convergence of high-frequency designs

• Knowledge of geometry/process/device technology implications on physical design

• Experience with large SOC designs (>100M gates) with frequencies over 1GHZ

• Experience collaborating effectively with both internal and external teams across various

functions and geographic locations

• Programming/scripting skills: TCL, Python, Perl or Shell

📩 Interested candidates? Please share your updated resume to [email protected]