Senior Staff Physical Design Engineer - AI GPU IP Lead

Hardware FYI; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

AMD in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced physical design engineer to own and drive multi-million-gate graphics IP blocks, delivering designs that meet perf, power, and area targets across advanced processes.

You will partner with RTL and engineering teams, leading flows from floorplanning through signoff, while mentoring engineers and advancing automated design flows for efficiency and quality.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-performance semiconductor physical design, timing closure and signoff.
• Synthesis and timing-driven place-and-route for RTL blocks in high-speed datapath.
• Floorplanning, clock tree synthesis, routing, extraction, and verification.
• Proficiency with IC design tools: ICC2/ICC, Fusion Compiler, PrimeTime, Calibre, Innovus/Genus.

Responsibilities

• Own the physical design of multi-million-gate graphics IP blocks to meet performance, power and area targets.
• Collaborate with RTL teams to identify frequency bottlenecks early in the project lifecycle.
• Drive floorplanning, synthesis, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, extraction, timing closure and physical verification.
• Perform and support DRC/LVS verification, crosstalk analysis, and EM/IR analysis through final signoff.
• Establish and improve physical design methodologies for large IP delivery.
• Drive design optimization for timing, power, area and cycle efficiency; mentor engineers.
• Develop and enhance scripts and automated design flows to improve execution; collaborate across teams.

Skills

Physical design

Timing closure

Floorplanning

Synthesis

Place & route

Python

TCL

RTL design

Mentorship

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Electronics/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Synopsys ICC2

ICC

Fusion Compiler

PrimeTime

StarRC

Mentor Calibre

Cadence Innovus/Genus

Apache RedHawk

Job description

AMD in Austin, TX is seeking an experienced physical design engineer to own and drive multi-million-gate graphics IP blocks, delivering designs that meet perf, power, and area targets across advanced processes.

You will partner with RTL and engineering teams, leading flows from floorplanning through signoff, while mentoring engineers and advancing automated design flows for efficiency and quality.