Physical Design Engineer
Central Business Solutions, Inc · San Jose, CA ·
- Work mode
- Remote
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Hardware
- Experience
- 5+ years
Title: Physical Design Engineer
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: Long Term Contract role
Responsibilities
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualification:
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: Long Term Contract role
Responsibilities
- Develop and own physical design implementation of multi-hierarchy low-power designs including physical-aware logic synthesis, design for testability, floorplan, place and route, static timing analysis, IR Drop, EM, and physical verification in advanced technology nodes.
- Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution
- Deliver physical design of an end-to-end IP or integration of ASIC/SoC design
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, with 5 years of relevant physical design experience
- Strong understanding in the RTL2GDSII flow and design tapeouts in 16nm/14nm or below process technologies
- Experience with low power implementation, power gating, multiple voltage rails, strong UPF/CPF knowledge.
- Experience working with most EDA tools like DC/Genus, ICC2/Innovus, Primetime, Redhawk/Voltus, Calibre.
Preferred Qualification:
- Experience in running physical-aware logic synthesis and achieving optimal synthesis QoR on low power designs
- Knowledge of static timing analysis and concepts, defining timing constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions.
- Experience in Block-level and Full-chip floor-planning, power grid planning
- Experience with custom or regular clock tree synthesis implementation at block level or top level, and clock power reduction techniques.
- Experience with Python, TCL, Perl programming.