Physical Design Engineer

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About the Role:

Are you looking for a career at one of the leading semiconductor companies in the world Texas Instruments (TI) is looking for a Physical design engineer to join the team of enthusiastic engineers who develops highly complex mixed signal devices for audio applications with industry leading performance.

We are seeking a skilled Digital Physical Design Engineer of 2-5 Year of industry experience with good RTL design hands-on and understanding. The candidate will be responsible for taking RTL through synthesis, floorplanning, place-and-route, timing closure, power optimization, and physical verification to tape-out. This role demands hands-on expertise in EDA tools, physical design flows, and deep knowledge of digital VLSI concepts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute RTL-to-GDSII physical design flow for complex SoC/ASIC blocks.
• Perform logic synthesis, floor-planning, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), and routing.
• Develop/support/update design constraints.
• Drive timing closure across multiple corners and modes using static timing analysis (STA).
• Good understanding of digital timing analysis
• Optimize for area, power, and performance (PPA) at block and chip level.
• Conduct physical verification: DRC, LVS, Antenna checks, IR-drop, and EM analysis.
• Develop/support/update constraints.
• Collaborate with RTL design, verification, and architecture teams to resolve design and implementation issues.
• Provide EDA flow automation support (scripting in TCL/Perl/Python).
• Contribute to design reviews, documentation, and sign-off processes for successful tape-out.
• Highly prefer if additionally able to handle RTL coding, Digital QC(RDC/CDC/Lint). Contribute to digital design reviews and Arch reviews.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• B.E./B.Tech or M.E./M.Tech in Electronics, Electrical, VLSI, or related field.
• 2-5 years of hands-on experience in physical design for ASIC/SoC.
• Strong knowledge of CMOS, VLSI design fundamentals, and digital circuit concepts.
• Proficiency in EDA tools such Cadence (Innovus, Tempus,voltus ), or equivalent.
• Experience in signoff checks: DRC, LVS, IR drop, EM, noise analysis.
• Strong scripting skills (Tcl, Perl, or Python) for flow automation.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Expertise in timing analysis, floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, and optimization techniques.
• Hands-on of cadence simulation tools.
• Knowledge of audio signal chain, I2C, ASI/TDM, memory architecture and FPGA is preferred.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skill.

Additional preference:

• Digital design fundamentals and basic electrical/electronic engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience in RTL design coding along with understating of QC (Lint/CDC/RDC) is highly preferred and recommended.

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication, presentation and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with a commitment to quality.