Senior EDA Tools & Physical Design Engineer

Intel Corporation; Folsom (CA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, seeks an EDA Tools Hardware Engineer to shape silicon innovation by enabling advanced design tools and flows. This role focuses on full-chip implementation, CTS integration, and power/architecture optimization.

You will collaborate with EDA vendors, define next-generation toolchains, and contribute to multi-block and multi-power domain designs. The position offers a hybrid work model and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; 6+ years experience, or a Master’s with 4+ years, or PhD with 2+ years.
• Physical design fundamentals (i.e. placement, routing)
• Clock tree synthesis (CTS)
• Full-chip integration methodologies using Innovus

Responsibilities

• Full Chip Implementation Flow Development
• Develop and maintain full-chip physical implementation flows including floor planning and partitioning strategies
• Hierarchical block integration
• Chip-level placement and routing coordination
• Power grid planning and analysis
• Clock tree synthesis (CTS) strategy integration
• Enable scalable SoC assembly flows for multi-block and multi-power domain designs.
• Define methodology for hierarchical design reuse and integration.

Skills

CTS

Floorplanning

Placement & routing

Linux scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Innovus

Job description

Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, seeks an EDA Tools Hardware Engineer to shape silicon innovation by enabling advanced design tools and flows. This role focuses on full-chip implementation, CTS integration, and power/architecture optimization.

You will collaborate with EDA vendors, define next-generation toolchains, and contribute to multi-block and multi-power domain designs. The position offers a hybrid work model and competitive compensation.