Staff Engineer - Physical Design

Requirements:

• Physical Implementation activities for subsystems, which include floor-planning, Place and Route, CTS, Formal verification, Physical Verification (DRC/LVS), PDN, Timing Closure and power optimization.
• Should have good exposure to PD implementation of PPA critical Cores and making right PPA trade-off decisions.
• Strong expertise in timing convergence of high frequency data-path intensive Cores and advanced STA concepts.
• Well versed with the Block level PnR convergence with Synopsys ICC2/ Cadence Innovus and timing convergence in PTSI/Tempus in latest technology nodes
• Good understanding of clocking architecture.
• Should be able work in close collaboration with design, DFT and PNR teams and resolve issues wrt constraints validation, verification, STA, Physical design, etc.
• Well versed with Tcl/Perl Scripting.
• Experience of working as part of a larger team and working towards project milestones and deadlines.
• Handle technical deliverables with a small team of engineers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and good communication skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
• The individual should have deep knowledge of scripting and software languages including PERL/TCL, Linux/Unix shell and C.
• This individual will design, verify and deliver complex Physical Design solutions from netlist and timing constraints to the final product.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from a reputed institution.
• 8+ years of experience in Physical Design/Implementation.

Skills

Floor Planning, PnR, STA, implementation, physical design, route, timing