Physical Design Engineer

DBSI Services; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Physical Design Engineer for a hands-on technical position in Milpitas, CA. The role involves working closely with ASIC customers and design teams, focusing on various physical design tasks and ensuring successful tape outs. Ideal candidates will have a BSEE and extensive experience in ASIC Physical Design, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills. This position offers a chance to engage in critical technical discussions and contribute to innovative design solutions.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

Disability insurance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in ASIC Physical Design.
• Hands-on experience with EDA tools and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Pre-layout STA and timing constraint validation.
• Handle Physical design tasks including Placement and Routing.
• Perform sign-off tasks and customer interactions.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Scripting

Education

BSEE

MSEE

Tools

ICC2

Innovus

Verilog HDL

Perl

Tcl

Python

Job description

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We are seeking a Physical Design Engineer. This is a hands-on technical position and will have opportunities to work on a variety of challenging designs. Critical to this position is the ability to articulate technical discussions with ASIC Customers and design teams and work closely with customer, frontend and integration teams to ensure successful tape outs.

Primary Responsibilities:

· Pre-layout STA to ascertain feasibility, timing constraint validation and feedback to customers and design teams

· Chip/Block Level Floorplanning and pin assignment

· Review top-level/block-level clock specifications for completeness and feasibility

· Handle all the Physical design tasks (Placement, Timing Optimization, Clock Tree Synthesis, Routing)

· Perform sign-off tasks (RC Extraction, Static Timing Analysis, IR drop analysis and Physical Verification)

· Presentations and Customer Interaction in customer meetings

Necessary Qualifications:

· BSEE, with 5+ years of experience or equivalent experience. MSEE preferred.

· Experience in ASIC Physical Design; Experience in an SoC product development organization with tapeouts at 28nm/16nm design nodes.

· Hands-on Experience with implementation EDA tools like ICC2/Innovus.

· Scripting (Perl/Tcl/Python) is required.

· Good understanding of ASIC frontend design.

· Experience in both Flat and Hierarchical layouts.

· Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze and resolve physical design issues related to library, timing constraints or CAD tools is required.

· Experience with power analysis and IR-drop tools (primepower/Redhawk) and Static Timing Analysis (Primetime).

· Experience with Physical Verification and fix PV errors in layout.

· Expert handling of Verilog HDL based Netlists, Physical design libraries.

· Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills; ability to explain processes and answer customer questions during meetings.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting, Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Manufacturing

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

Disability insurance

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