Physical Design Engineer

Senior Physical Design Engineer

Full-time + Benefits

Richardson, Texas (onsite/hybrid)

US Citizen or US Permanent Resident

Responsibilities:

• Architect system requirements

• Collaborate effectively with the full ASIC design implementation team with a Humble, Hungry and Smart attitude

• Leverage or enhance existing digital design flow and solve design and flow issues within Cadence Genus Innovus Tempus

• Plan budget, tools and team effort and champion project needs to ensure milestones and objectives are met

• Super user of industry standard Physical Design, Synthesis and Timing Analysis tools

• Accountable for physical design implementation of complex, low-power designs including physical-aware logic synthesis, DFT, floorplan, place and route, static timing analysis, IR Drop, EM, and physical verification

Skills / Experience:

• BSEE/MSEE with 5+ years of related industry experience

• 5+ years hands-on experience in high reliability, low power VLSI designs

• 5+ years of experience with Cadence digital design tools (Genus, Innovus, Tempus)

• Basic proficiency with programming languages such as Perl, C and TCL

• Excellent understanding of reliability, test and power concepts & design tradeoffs required

• ITAR compliance approval required

• Knowledge of MIPI, I2S, CAN protocols a plus

• Skilled with Verilog/VHDL RTL and able to modify for timing or power closure

• Production-proven experience with Floor planning at Chip Level with Bus/Pin variables, Synthesis, Place and Route Optimization, Parasitic Extraction, Static Timing Analysis, Low Power Intent (UPF/CPF), Power Analysis, IR drop analysis, electromigration, Physical Verification and Sign Off

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