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Designs and implements large SoC physical layouts from RTL to GDSII, including floorplanning, place & route, power grids, and sign-off verification for high-performance chips.
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Job Description:
SoC Block-level Physical Design Engineer
As a block-level and top-level SOC Physical Design Engineer, you will contribute to all phases of physical design from RTL to the delivery of our final GDSII. Your responsibilities include:
Responsibilities:
Implement physical design at the large SoC block level from RTL to GDSII, creating a design database ready for manufacturing.
Build floorplan, including macro placement and optimization, block pins placement and alignment, power grid, and RDL design, etc.
Perform block-level place and route, including custom place & route, ensuring the design meets timing, area, power constraints, and all sign-off criteria.
Generate and implement ECOs to fix timing, signal integrity, EM/IR violations, PV, and complete formal verification.
Integrate DFT into physical design, ensuring alignment with overall test strategies and manufacturing requirements.
Run Physical Design verification flow at block level, fixing LVS/DRC/ERC/ANT violations.
Collaborate closely with architecture, frontend design, DV, and package teams to ensure cohesive design implementation and successful project tapeouts.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
BS degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of experience in block or full-chip physical design, or
MS degree in the above fields with 5+ years of related experience.
Technical Expertise:
Extensive knowledge and practices in Physical Design, including physically aware synthesis, floor-planning, place & route, CTS, and repeater/feedthrough.
Experience in developing and implementing power-grid and clock network at block level.
Knowledge of basic SoC architecture and HDL languages like Verilog to work with the logic design team for timing fixes.
Experience in physical design verification to debug LVS/DRC/ERC/ANT issues at block level.
Experience in custom place and route.
Exposure to 2.5D/3D packaging is preferred.
High performance and large chip design experience is preferred.
Exposure to DFT is preferred.
Proficiency in writing Linux shell scripts in Perl, TCL, and Python.
Real chip tapeout experience in 7nm and/or below with a successful signoff track record.
Self-motivated with strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Ability to work effectively in a dynamic group environment.
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