Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineer

Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 149,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus or Equity

Job summary

Tektronix in Boulder, CO is seeking an experienced ASIC Physical Design Engineer to join a premier design center. You will drive physical design implementation from RTL to GDSII, including floorplanning, place-and-route, clock tree synthesis, and signoff tasks.

You will collaborate with RTL, DFT, analog, packaging, and product teams to ensure timing-closed, manufacturable tapeouts. The role requires 5+ years in ASIC physical design, with strong scripting and industry-tool proficiency.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience ASIC physical design from RTL to verified GDS.
• Hands-on experience with ASIC or SoC physical design implementation, including floorplanning, power planning, place-and-route, clock tree synthesis, routing, and design closure.
• Working knowledge of RTL-to-GDSII physical design flows and the ability to resolve implementation issues related to congestion, timing, power, area, and signal integrity.
• Experience with static timing analysis, timing constraints, multi-mode multi-corner timing verification, and timing closure at the block or SoC level.
• Familiarity with physical signoff checks and related debug activities, including DRC, LVS, extraction, formal equivalence checking, IR drop, electromigration, and crosstalk analysis.
• Proficiency with industry-standard physical design and timing tools from vendors such as Cadence, Synopsys, or Siemens EDA.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Tcl, Python, Perl, or shell scripting to support physical design flows, debug, reporting, and methodology improvement.
• Provide feedback to RTL and packaging design teams to improve design hand-off quality and standard work processes.
• Basic knowledge of industry standard ECO practices.

Responsibilities

• Execute ASIC digital physical design implementation from RTL or gate-level netlist through GDSII, including floor-planning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and design closure.
• Drive place-and-route execution using industry-standard EDA tools, optimizing designs for timing, power, area, signal integrity, and routability.
• Perform static timing analysis and timing verification across multiple modes and corners, resolving setup, hold, clocking, and constraint-related issues to achieve timing closure.
• Support physical signoff activities, including DRC, LVS, formal equivalence checking, extraction, IR drop, electromigration, and signal integrity analysis.
• Collaborate with RTL design, verification, DFT, analog, packaging, and product architecture teams to resolve implementation issues and ensure a timing-closed, manufacturable design.
• Develop and maintain scripts, flows, documentation, and review materials that improve physical design methodology, automation, quality, and schedule predictability.

Skills

RTL to GDSII

Tcl/Python scripting

EDA tool proficiency

DRC/LVS debugging

Clock tree synthesis

Power/Timing/Signal integrity

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Cadence tools

Synopsys tools

Siemens EDA

Flow scripting

Job description

Tektronix in Boulder, CO is seeking an experienced ASIC Physical Design Engineer to join a premier design center. You will drive physical design implementation from RTL to GDSII, including floorplanning, place-and-route, clock tree synthesis, and signoff tasks.

You will collaborate with RTL, DFT, analog, packaging, and product teams to ensure timing-closed, manufacturable tapeouts. The role requires 5+ years in ASIC physical design, with strong scripting and industry-tool proficiency.