Physical Design Engineer

Responsibility : (Own RTL to GDS physical implementation flows for synthesis, floor-planning, place and route, clock tree synthesis, timing & power closure, EM/IR, PDV and final PD sign off Own physical design & implementation of high-performance designs from block level to system level components Deep collaboration with Micro-architects to explore performance, power and area trade-offs for high performance and low power designs Physical implementation feasibility studies and design recommendations for best PPA Develop methodologies and recipes for various stages of physical implementation Perform various physical design validation (PDV) flows for Timing, Power, EM/IR, etc.

to ensure physical design quality Perform design rule checking (DRC), (LVS) checks, and other physical verification tasks Qualifications and Preferred Skills BS, MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or related degree Experience in all aspects of physical design including synthesis, floor planning, place & route, timing & power closure, EM/IR, physical design validation, etc Experience with synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis and PDV tools Experience in implementing clock trees and power grids Experience with scripting for physical design flow automation Experience with Synopsys Design Compiler, Prime Time, ICC, Fusion Compiler etc.

Good knowledge of high-performance and low-power microarchitecture and logic design principles Understanding of modern (sub 7nm) sub-micron technology nodes and device physics Basic knowledge of System/SoC Architecture and System Verilog RTL coding Strong communication and collaboration skills