ASIC Engineer, Power

Anysilicon; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking an experienced ASIC Engineer specializing in power to join its EDA Infrastructure team. This role focuses on developing and maintaining power analysis and optimization flows for custom silicon designs, ensuring accurate power modeling and consumption reduction.

You will collaborate across RTL, physical design and verification to drive power closure on complex ASIC designs, build automation, and evaluate new EDA tools to improve signoff accuracy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in ASIC design or physical design with a focus on power analysis, optimization, or signoff.
• Experience developing or maintaining EDA flows for power analysis using tools such as Synopsys PrimePower, Cadence Voltus, or equivalent.
• Experience with power intent specification languages such as UPF or CPF and their application across RTL-to-GDSII flows.
• Experience scripting in Python, Tcl, or shell to build and automate EDA infrastructure workflows.
• Experience collaborating across RTL design, physical design, and verification disciplines to drive power closure on complex ASIC designs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain power analysis flows including dynamic and static power estimation, vectorless analysis, and power intent verification using industry-standard EDA tools.
• Define and implement power methodology guidelines for RTL, synthesis, and physical design stages of the ASIC development flow.
• Collaborate with RTL design, physical design, and verification teams to identify and resolve power hotspots and inefficiencies across custom ASIC designs.
• Build and optimize EDA infrastructure scripts and automation frameworks to improve power signoff accuracy and turnaround time.
• Evaluate and integrate commercial and internally developed EDA tools into the power analysis flow, providing technical assessments and recommendations.
• Develop power intent specifications using UPF or CPF and ensure consistent application across design and implementation stages.
• Establish power budgets and track power metrics across design milestones, communicating results and risks to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement of power closure methodologies by analyzing results across multiple tape-outs and identifying systemic opportunities.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers on power analysis best practices, flow usage, and debug techniques.
• Partner with EDA tool vendors to evaluate new capabilities and influence tool roadmaps to meet Meta silicon design requirements.

Skills

Power analysis

Power optimization

EDA tools

Python scripting

RTL-to-GDSII flows

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or CE

Tools

Synopsys PrimePower

Cadence Voltus

UPF/CPF

Job description

Meta is seeking an experienced ASIC Engineer specializing in power to join its EDA Infrastructure team. This role focuses on developing and maintaining power analysis and optimization flows for custom silicon designs, ensuring accurate power modeling and consumption reduction. The engineer will collaborate across various teams to enhance the design and verification processes of Meta's next-generation chips.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain power analysis flows including dynamic and static power estimation, vectorless analysis, and power intent verification using industry-standard EDA tools.
• Define and implement power methodology guidelines for RTL, synthesis, and physical design stages of the ASIC development flow.
• Collaborate with RTL design, physical design, and verification teams to identify and resolve power hotspots and inefficiencies across custom ASIC designs.
• Build and optimize EDA infrastructure scripts and automation frameworks to improve power signoff accuracy and turnaround time.
• Evaluate and integrate commercial and internally developed EDA tools into the power analysis flow, providing technical assessments and recommendations.
• Develop power intent specifications using UPF or CPF and ensure consistent application across design and implementation stages.
• Establish power budgets and track power metrics across design milestones, communicating results and risks to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement of power closure methodologies by analyzing results across multiple tape-outs and identifying systemic opportunities.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers on power analysis best practices, flow usage, and debug techniques.
• Partner with EDA tool vendors to evaluate new capabilities and influence tool roadmaps to meet Meta silicon design requirements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in ASIC design or physical design with a focus on power analysis, optimization, or signoff.
• Experience developing or maintaining EDA flows for power analysis using tools such as Synopsys PrimePower, Cadence Voltus, or equivalent.
• Experience with power intent specification languages such as UPF or CPF and their application across RTL-to-GDSII flows.
• Experience scripting in Python, Tcl, or shell to build and automate EDA infrastructure workflows.
• Experience collaborating across RTL design, physical design, and verification disciplines to drive power closure on complex ASIC designs.

Skills:

• Proficiency in power analysis and optimization techniques.
• Strong understanding of EDA tools and methodologies.
• Ability to script and automate workflows effectively.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical teams.