Physical Design Engineer

Responsibility :

• Own physical design & implementation of high-performance designs from block level to system level components
  




• Deep collaboration with Micro-architects to explore performance, power and area trade-offs for high performance and low power designs
  




• Physical implementation feasibility studies and design recommendations for best PPA
  




• Develop methodologies and recipes for various stages of physical implementation
  




• Perform various physical design validation (PDV) flows for Timing, Power, EM/IR, etc. to ensure physical design quality
  




• Perform design rule checking (DRC), (LVS) checks, and other physical verification tasks
  

Qualifications and Preferred Skills

• BS, MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related degree
  




• Experience in all aspects of physical design including synthesis, floor planning, place & route, timing & power closure, EM/IR, physical design validation, etc
  




• Experience with synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis and PDV tools
  




• Experience in implementing clock trees and power grids
  




• Experience with scripting for physical design flow automation
  




• Experience with Synopsys Design Compiler, Prime Time, ICC, Fusion Compiler etc.
  




• Good knowledge of high-performance and low-power microarchitecture and logic design principles
  




• Understanding of modern (sub 7nm) sub-micron technology nodes and device physics
  




• Basic knowledge of System/SoC Architecture and System Verilog RTL coding
  




• Strong communication and collaboration skills