Senior Power Integrity Engineer

Semidynamics; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 days per week in Barcelona office

1 day WFH

Global work-from-anywhere week

Job summary

Semidynamics seeks a Senior PDN Design Engineer to own the PDN from voltage regulator outputs to die bumps, ensuring impedance, IR drop and decoupling meet performance targets across die, package and board.

You will lead DC IR, electro-thermal and AC impedance studies, size on-die and board decoupling, and mitigate resonance. Hybrid work in Barcelona with an accelerated development path.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in power integrity for high-speed digital systems.
• Hands-on with PDN extraction and simulation tools.
• Experience with target impedance and decap optimization.

Responsibilities

• Build and close DC IR, electro-thermal, AC impedance and transient PDN analysis from VR output through package to die bump.
• Set target impedance per rail and hold the design to it.
• Size on-die, package and board decoupling using workload current profiles.
• Identify package-board anti-resonance and drive mitigation through layout changes.
• Translate PDN noise into jitter and feed back into channel budget.
• Coordinate with IP, PHY and package vendors and validate against measurements.

Skills

Power integrity

Python scripting

PDN extraction

Package substrate analysis

Tools

Ansys SIwave/HFSS

Cadence Sigrity/Clarity

Job description

You will own the power distribution network from voltage regulator output to die bump - impedance, IR drop, droop and decoupling across package and board. Senior IC role: you own the PDN numbers that power delivery, SI and the package team design against.

What you will work on:

• PDN design and closure for a multi-die AI accelerator package
• DC IR, AC impedance, transient droop and electro-thermal analysis across die, package and board
• Decoupling strategy and optimisation across on-die, package and board tiers
• Package-board anti-resonance identification and mitigation
• PDN noise to jitter translation, closed back into the SI budget

Responsibilities:

• Analysis & closure: Build and close DC IR, electro-thermal, AC impedance and transient PDN analysis from VR output through package to die bump. Set target impedance per rail and hold the design to it.
• Chip power models: Work with CPM and workload current profiles to size on-die, package and board decoupling, and to predict droop across all three droop timescales.
• Resonance & mitigation: Identify package-board anti-resonance and cavity behaviour, and drive the plane, via and decap changes that mitigate it.
• SI coupling: Translate PDN noise into jitter through PHY supply sensitivity, and feed the result back into the channel budget.
• Vendor & validation: Drive CPM and model requirements with IP, PHY and package vendors. Correlate against PDN impedance measurement and on-die droop telemetry, and support bring-up and power debug.

Requirements:

• 8+ years in power integrity for high-speed digital systems, including package-level PDN work
• Hands-on with PDN extraction and simulation tools - Ansys SIwave/HFSS, Cadence Sigrity/Clarity or equivalent
• Real experience with DC IR, target impedance, transient droop and decap optimisation on a high-current rail
• Working knowledge of chip power models and how to apply workload current profiles
• Comfortable reading a package substrate stackup and bump map, and reasoning about plane, via and cavity behaviour
• Python scripting for automation and post-processing

Nice to Have:

• 2.5D, interposer, chiplet or advanced substrate PDN co-design
• PDN impedance measurement and on-die margin or droop telemetry correlation
• Electro-thermal co-simulation with the thermal team
• Familiarity with OCP rack-scale platforms and high-current delivery architectures
• Automated or AI-assisted engineering flows - PyAEDT, scikit-rf or similar

Why Semidynamics?

• Work for one of Europe’s most promising deep-tech semiconductor scale-ups.
• Accelerated development path.
• 4 days per week in the Barcelona office (city center), 1 day WFH.
• 1 week of work from everywhere in the world.
• Competitive package.
• A collaborative, technical, and growth-oriented environment that values direct ownership and clear thinking.