Physical Design Engineer

Physical Design Engineer – Santa Clara, California

Permanent position – $120K-$160K base salary

Unique opportunity to join an established international company in their North America expansion. Working from the NA headquarters, you will have the ability to be an impact player working with some other exceptionally talented people. The Physical Design Engineer will be responsible for the entire product design lifecycle.

Duties include:

1. Actively participate and contribute in technical and schedule discussions with customers, colleagues, and managers.
2. Chip Level Floor planning
3. Placement
4. Clock Tree Synthesis
5. Optimization
6. Routing
7. Parasitic Extraction
8. Static Timing Analysis
9. Power consumption Analysis
10. IR drop / Emig / DvD analysis
11. Physical Verification and Sign Off
12. Multiple P&R blocks to benchmark QOR
13. Work closely and collaborate with frontend and integration teams to ensure successful tape outs
14. Meet deliverables within the allotted deadlines

Qualifications include:

1. BSEE. MSEE preferred.
2. 5-10 years of experience in cutting edge submicron physical design flows.
3. Experience in Physical Design Implementation which includes Floorplan, Chip Partitioning, Power mesh, Clock Tree, Physical optimization, Place and Route, STA, Timing closure, Power analysis and Physical Verification.
4. Experience in both Flat and Hierarchical layout.
5. Experience with tape out designs in 28nm and 16nm/12nm technology node.
6. Hands on experience ICC2 and Innovus.
7. Calibre or ICV physical verification tool experience for DRC/LVS/ERC/ANT.
8. Good understanding of ASIC Front-End Design.
9. Good interpersonal and communication skills.
10. Japanese language skills a plus.