Senior Staff Physical Design Engineer

EnCharge AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EnCharge AI, Bengaluru-based leader in AI hardware and software systems, seeks a Senior Staff Physical Design Engineer to drive chip-level implementation and timing closure. The role emphasizes low-power design, EM/IR checks, and flow optimization within advanced EDA environments.

The candidate should bring deep expertise in top-level and block-level physical design, hierarchical floorplanning, and power grid verification, with hands-on Cadence experience and strong scripting ability in

Qualifications

• 10–14 years of experience in physical design (excluding other areas such as logic design or CAD).
• Strong understanding of EDA implementation for chip design, with hands-on experience in Cadence tools (must-have).
• Strong knowledge of timing concepts and timing closure techniques for chip design.
• Experience with both top-level and block-level physical design is required; experience with hierarchical floorplanning is a plus.
• Proficiency in low-power design concepts and debugging is necessary.
• Experience with EM/IR checks, debugging, and issue resolution, including power grid verification, is required.
• Strong scripting skills in TCL or Python for automation are important.
• Understanding of process concepts is needed for physical verification as part of routing tasks.
• Experience with physical design methodology and flow setup is preferred; this role will involve advanced flow evaluations.
• Additional experience in areas such as PDK management or foundry tapeout processes is a plus

Skills

Physical design

Cadence tools

Timing closure

Low-power design

EM/IR checks

TCL/Python scripting

Floorplanning

Process concepts

Flow/methodology

Tools

Cadence tools

Job description

Title: Senior Staff Physical Design Engineer

About Company:

EnCharge AI is a leader in advanced AI hardware and software systems for edge-to-cloud computing. EnCharge's robust and scalable next-generation in-memory computing technology provides orders-of-magnitude higher compute efficiency and density compared to today's best-in-class solutions. The high-performance architecture is coupled with seamless software integration and will enable the immense potential of AI to be accessible in power, energy, and space constrained applications. EnCharge AI launched in 2022 and is led by veteran technologists with backgrounds in semiconductor design and AI systems.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Staff Physical Design Engineer with a strong background in chip-level implementation and EDA tools. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in physical design, timing closure, and low-power design.

Qualifications

• 10-14 years of experience in physical design (excluding other areas such as logic design or CAD).
• Strong understanding of EDA implementation for chip design, with hands-on experience in Cadence tools (must-have).
• Strong knowledge of timing concepts and timing closure techniques for chip design.
• Experience with both top-level and block-level physical design is required; experience with hierarchical floorplanning is a plus.
• Proficiency in low-power design concepts and debugging is necessary.
• Experience with EM/IR checks, debugging, and issue resolution, including power grid verification, is required.
• Strong scripting skills in TCL or Python for automation are important.
• Understanding of process concepts is needed for physical verification as part of routing tasks.
• Experience with physical design methodology and flow setup is preferred; this role will involve advanced flow evaluations.
• Additional experience in areas such as PDK management or foundry tapeout processes is a plus