Silicon Physical Design Engineer — High-Impact ASICs

SpaceX; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) plan

Health insurance

Job summary

SpaceX in California seeks a Physical Design Engineer to develop next‑gen ASICs for space and ground systems. You will work with cross‑functional teams on architectural feasibility, physical design flows, and optimization across deep sub‑micron processes.

You will contribute to signoff, timing, power, and area targets while driving improvements in methodologies and automation in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical/computer engineering or computer science.
• 1+ year RTL2GDSII physical design experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform partition synthesis and physical implementation steps (synthesis, floorplanning, P/G grid, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage drop, logic equivalency and signoff).
• Develop and automate physical design methodologies and scripts.
• Collaborate with ASIC team to set timing, power, area targets and design tradeoffs.
• Resolve timing/congestion and flow issues; drive fixes.
• Run and fix signoff issues in STA, noise, LVS/EM, and physical verification.

Skills

RTL2GDSII experience

Physical design tooling

Scripting languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science

Tools

EDA tools

Scripting languages

Job description

SpaceX in California seeks a Physical Design Engineer to develop next‑gen ASICs for space and ground systems. You will work with cross‑functional teams on architectural feasibility, physical design flows, and optimization across deep sub‑micron processes.

You will contribute to signoff, timing, power, and area targets while driving improvements in methodologies and automation in a fast-paced environment.