Sr Physical Design Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a collaborative Physical Design Engineer to drive RTL-to-GDS flows and deliver high-performance IP. You will lead timing-driven place and route, floorplanning, and signoff while coordinating with distributed teams to ensure quality, power, and timing targets are met.

This role emphasizes automation, design methodology, and scalable engineering processes. A degree in EE/CS is preferred; visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• Experience taking digital designs through RTL-to-GDS physical design flow.
• Knowledge of high-speed SerDes PHY or high-performance IP designs is preferred.
• Experience with automated logic synthesis and timing-driven place and route for datapath and control logic.
• Familiarity with clock tree synthesis, power gating, and design optimization.

Responsibilities

• Drive physical implementation of high-performance RTL blocks through synthesis, floorplanning, timing-driven place and route, and signoff.
• Develop and apply automated design flows for clock tree synthesis, clock and power gating, buffer/repeater insertion, and scan stitching.
• Analyze and optimize designs to meet timing, power, area, and electrical quality targets.
• Support floorplanning, design methodology development, and IP integration.
• Perform and support checks for timing, physical, and electrical quality; troubleshoot issues with design teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, methodology and cycle time; support final signoff.

Skills

RTL-to-GDS flow

High-speed SerDes PHY

Timing analysis

Power optimization

Automation flows

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Logic synthesis tools

Place & route tools

Physical verification tools

Timing analysis tools

Job description

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At AMD, we believe technology has the power to solve the world's most important challenges. From advancing healthcare and scientific discovery to powering AI and the technologies people rely on every day, innovation at AMD is shaping the future.

Whether you're redesigning next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or bringing leading edge products to market, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger- technology that moves the world forward. Join us and, together, we'll advance your career.

THE ROLE:

Join a team developing high-performance, multi-gigabit SerDes PHY and advanced IP designs. In this Physical Design Engineering role, you will contribute across the full RTL-to-GDS implementation lifecycle, working on challenging designs where timing, power, area, and physical quality are critical.

You will collaborate with geographically distributed engineering teams and gain exposure to synthesis, floorplanning, timing-driven place and route, clock tree synthesis, physical verification, and final sign off. This is an opportunity to influence both individual designs and the methodologies and automated flows used to deliver complex IP efficiently and with high quality.

THE PERSON:

The successful candidate is a collaborative and technically curious engineer who enjoys solving complex physical design challenges. You communicate technical concepts clearly, work effectively with colleagues across different disciplines and locations, and can prioritize work across multiple projects.

You bring a thoughtful, analytical approach to problem solving and are comfortable balancing timing, power, area, quality, and schedule considerations. You are also interested in improving design methodologies and identifying opportunities to make engineering flows more efficient and scalable.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive physical implementation of high-performance RTL blocks through synthesis, floorplanning, timing-driven place and route, and signoff.
• Develop and apply automated design flows for clock tree synthesis, clock and power gating, buffer/repeater insertion, scan stitching, and related implementation activities.
• Analyze and optimize designs to achieve timing, power, area, physical, and electrical quality targets.
• Support floorplanning, design methodology development, and integration of complex IP.
• Perform and support logic equivalence, timing, physical, and electrical quality checks.
• Troubleshoot implementation and timing challenges and collaboration with design teams to drive issues to closure.
• Identify opportunities to improve automation, design methodology, quality, and overall design cycle time.
• Support final signoff and delivery of large, high-performance IP blocks.
• Build familiarity with the team's design environment and methodologies early in the role, progressing toward independent ownership of physical design blocks and optimization activities.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience taking digital designs through the RTL-to-GDS physical design flow.
• Experience with high-speed multi-gigabit SerDes PHY designs or other high-performance IP designs is preferred.
• Experience with automated logic synthesis and timing-driven place and route for high-speed datapath and control logic.
• Verilog experience is preferred.
• Experience with clock tree synthesis, clock and power gating, buffer/repeater insertion, scan stitching, and design optimization.
• Knowledge of timing, power, and area optimization techniques.
• Understanding of digital circuit techniques, logic optimization, and implementation approaches for high-speed, low-power applications.
• Experience with floorplanning, IP integration, logic equivalence checking, physical verification, timing analysis, electrical quality checks, and final signoff.
• Experience with industry EDA tools for logic synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, and physical/electrical design checks.
• Familiarity with schematic, layout, circuit simulation, or logic simulation tools is desired.
• Experience developing, automating, or improving physical design methodologies and flows is preferred.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
• Relevant technical education or equivalent practical experience in semiconductor or physical design engineering is also valued.
• Academic or professional exposure to high-speed SerDes PHY, high-performance digital IP, or related semiconductor design is desired.

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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