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You are presented with a unique opportunity to drive the complete physical design flow, from RTL-to-GSDII to achieve best in class PPA for the next generation Syntiant ASICs while working in a cross-functional environment interacting with multiple teams.\nRequirements\nSpecific Duties and Responsibilities:\nDrive next generation physical design work to achieve best in class PPA for Syntiant’s next generation ASICs.\nRTL to GDSII Physical Design Implementation, including Synthesis, Pad Ring, Floorplan, Placement, Clock Tree Synthesis, Detailed Routing and Optimization, in addition to Physical Signoff Verification.\nWork with Physical Verification Team to clean-up layout violations.\nWork with foundry to complete tape-out related forms and checks.\n Qualifications, Education, and Experience Required:\nAdvanced degree in electronics engineering with 5+ years’ experience in physical design and implementation.\nExcellence in complete RTL to GDSII flow with strong experience in the usage of industry-standard Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools for both physical design and timing signoff with a focus on improving PPA (Performance, Power, Area).\nDeep knowledge on industry standards and practices in physical design including physically aware synthesis flow, floor-planning, place & route, metal fill, chip finishing, signal integrity checks, and static/dynamic EMIR-Drop analysis, and formal ESD verification.\nExperience in building chip floorplan including partitions and power grid.\nExperience in Signoff ECO flow to fix timing, noise, IR-Drop and EMIR violations.\nExperience in physical design verification to debug & fix LVS/DRC/PERC issues at the chip/block level using industry standard tools.\nExperience in UPF flow.\nExperience in tape-out related communication with foundry (forms, jobview, etc).\nExperience in package, RDL routing design.\nExperience with Programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python or Perl, tcl).\nExperience with scan insertion and ATPG pattern generation is a plus.\nExperience with power analysis flows is a plus.\nBenefits\nAbout Syntiant:\nFounded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models are being deployed globally to power edge AI speech, audio, sensor and vision applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors. Syntiant also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint across a broad range of processors. The company is backed by several of the world’s leading strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Bosch Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Atlantic Bridge Capital. More information on the company can be found by visiting www.syntiant.com.\nOne element in our total compensation package is base pay. Individual compensation decisions are based on several factors, including but not limited to previous experience and skills acquired prior to joining Syntiant, cost of living in the assigned work location, assigned schedule, and salaries of similarly situated peers at the company. It is to be expected that candidates will come to us with different sets of skills and experiences and therefore will be paid at different points in the stated range. 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