Senior 3nm ASIC Physical Design Engineer

Doist; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 267,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medic​

Retirement Savings Matching

Equity grants

Hybrid workplace model

Job summary

Lightmatter is seeking a highly skilled Senior Physical Design Engineer to lead the implementation of complex digital blocks for 3nm ASICs. You will drive timing closure, power integrity, and physical verification while collaborating with a team of world-class scientists and engineers.

In this role you will push innovative solutions in photonics-enabled data center infrastructure and help shape the future of computing with light.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering is required.
• 12+ years of industry experience as a Physical Design Engineer.
• Must have completed blocks or top level physical design for large ASICs or mixed signal chips that taped out.
• Thorough knowledge of timing closure, LVS/DRC closure.
• Experience in TCL and Python (or other scripting languages).
• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple functional teams.
• Ability to react to change and thrive in a fast paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Implement digital blocks in advanced tech nodes from synthesis through physical verification, using industry standard tools and flows.
• Drive fullchip STA signoff, review constraints, debug timing reports and implement ECOs.
• Drive power analysis and optimization while balancing area and performance trade-offs.
• Drive full chip floor planning, IO placement and clock distribution.
• Understand clock details and customize clock implementation for functional and test clocks.
• Debug and clean up DRC/LVS Functional and timing ECO implementation.
• Work with EDA companies to resolve tool issues.
• Write TCL, Python, or Shell scripts to automate flow or customize existing flows.

Skills

Timing closure

Scripting (TCL/Python)

Team collaboration

Hardware knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering

Master’s in Electrical/Computer Engineering (8+ years)

Tools

Cadence tools

Job description

Lightmatter is seeking a highly skilled Senior Physical Design Engineer to lead the implementation of complex digital blocks for 3nm ASICs. You will drive timing closure, power integrity, and physical verification while collaborating with a team of world-class scientists and engineers.

In this role you will push innovative solutions in photonics-enabled data center infrastructure and help shape the future of computing with light.