Senior Physical Design Engineer: Timing, PPA & Flows

The Consensus; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Housing subsidy

Relocation support

Daily meals at office

Compute budget

Job summary

Etched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team in San Jose. In this role you will own block-level implementation and verification, drive timing closure and PPA optimization, supervise 3rd party design work, and help improve our design flows and iteration speed.

You will collaborate with RTL designers, push automation, and develop dashboards that monitor project convergence. We seek deeply creative engineers comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of prior PD experience.
• Experience with RTL-to-GDSII flows and back-end timing closure.
• Knowledge of 5nm and below process nodes.
• Experience with Cadence and Synopsys PD tools.
• Familiarity with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus).
• Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology.

Responsibilities

• Run PD flows to close blocks and support ASIC infrastructure.
• Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide PD feedback to improve PPA.
• Drive dashboards that show project convergence for PD.
• Optimize tool flows and collaborate with EDA vendors.
• Supervise outsourcing of physical design to a third party.

Skills

PD experience

Python scripting

First-principles thinking

Tools

Cadence Innovus

Cadence Genus

Synopsys ICC2

Fusion Compiler

PrimeTime

Tempus

Voltus

Job description

Etched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team in San Jose. In this role you will own block-level implementation and verification, drive timing closure and PPA optimization, supervise 3rd party design work, and help improve our design flows and iteration speed.

You will collaborate with RTL designers, push automation, and develop dashboards that monitor project convergence. We seek deeply creative engineers comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment.