Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

PHYSICAL DESIGN ENGINEER (SILICON ENGINEERING)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform partition synthesis and physical implementation steps (e.g. synthesis, floorplanning, power/ground grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage drop, logic equivalency and other signoff checks)
• Develop/improve physical design methodologies and automation scripts for various implementation steps
• Closely collaborate with the ASIC design team to drive architectural feasibility studies, develop timing, power and area design targets, and explore RTL/design tradeoffs
• Resolve design/timing/congestion and flow issues, identify potential solutions and drive execution
• Run, debug, and fix signoff closure issues in static timing analysis (STA), noise, logic equivalency, physical verification, electromigration and voltage drop

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
• 1+ years of professional experience working on RTL2GDSII physical design and/or physical design flow development

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience with industry standard EDA tools including understanding of their capabilities and underlying algorithms
• Knowledge of deep sub-micron FinFET and CMOS solid state physics
• Understanding of CMOS digital design principles, basic standard cells their functionality, standard cell libraries
• Understanding of CMOS power dissipation in deep submicron processes leakage/dynamic
• Familiar with CMOS analog circuit and physical design
• Basic knowledge of DFT/Scan/MBIST/LBIST and understanding of their impact on physical design flows
• Good scripting skills (csh/bash, Perl, Python, TCL, Makefile etc.)
• Self-driven individual with a can-do attitude, willing to learn, and an ability to work in a dynamic group environment

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed to meet critical project milestones