Senior Standard Cell Engineer — End-to-End PPA

Intel; Folsom (CA); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock bonuses

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Intel's Foundry Standard Cell team in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Senior Design Engineer to design leading edge experiments to develop, characterize, and test standard cells, enabling customers by listening to their needs and delivering robust solutions.

The role covers end-to-end physical design flow, PPA optimization, and collaboration with collateral teams; you will run fast experiments, validate results, and contribute to manufacturing quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or STEM field.
• 2+ years' experience in standard cell layout, abstract modelling, characterisation, or ASIC design.
• Experience using one or more listed EDA tools (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens).

Responsibilities

• Defines, implements, and validates design solutions for power, performance, area (PPA), manufacturability, and cost.
• Implements all aspects of the physical design flow for standard cells, including timing, power, congestion, and reliability.
• Collaborates with standard cell collateral to meet design requirements and develop robust validation strategies.
• Reviews and validates work to ensure compliance with design, manufacturing, and quality requirements.
• Runs end-to-end experiments and guides data-driven decisions across multiple audiences.
• Executes end-to-end flows to generate, validate, and release custom standard cell collateral per on-demand requests.

Skills

Standard cell layout

Standard cell abstract modelling

Standard cell characterisation

ASIC design and verification

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/STEM

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso

Synopsys Custom Compiler

Cadence Abstract Generator

Synopsys PrimeLib

Cadence Liberate

Synopsys Fusion Compiler

Cadence Innovus

Cadence Tempus

Synopsys PrimeTime

Synopsys HSpice

Synopsys StarRC

Synopsys ICV

Cadence Pegasus

Siemens Calibre

Job description

Intel's Foundry Standard Cell team in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Senior Design Engineer to design leading edge experiments to develop, characterize, and test standard cells, enabling customers by listening to their needs and delivering robust solutions.

The role covers end-to-end physical design flow, PPA optimization, and collaboration with collateral teams; you will run fast experiments, validate results, and contribute to manufacturing quality.