Principal Engineer, Physical Design

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Overview of Role

As a Physical Design Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the entire SOC implementation and verification flow from RTL-to-GDS that includes floorplan, place and route, CTS, STA, PV/EMIR/Noise/SigEM cleanup and signoff on lower power SoC. You will be joining a team of engineers dedicated to pushing the envelope for a leading fabless wireless semiconductor platform company specializing in extreme low power wireless radio solutions.

Location

San Diego or San Jose, CA

Responsibilities

Complete entire physical implementation of the block and chip level

Perform synthesis and physical implementation steps – synthesis, floor-planning, power delivery, place&route, timing noise, physical verification, IR/RV.

Collaborate with the SOC design team to drive architectural feasibility studies, develop timing, power, and area design targets, and explore RTL/design tradeoffs

Analyze the quality of the floorplan and Customized Clock tree structure and Place & Route

Implement ECOs for timing closure

Signal EM/Noise and Power IR/EM analysis and fix

DRC/LVS/ERC/ANTENNA analysis and clean up

Timing verification and signoff

Physical verification and sign off

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree or above in electrical/computer science engineering with 10+ years of industry experience, or bachelor’s degree in electrical/computer science engineering plus 15+ years of industry experience

Strong experience in Power/Ground grids, Partitioning, Timing ECO implementation, and physical verification.

The entire SOC implementation and verification flow from RTL-to-GDS that includes fullchip floorplan, place and route, CTS, and layout verification signoff on lower power SoC

Netlist (or RTL)-GDS physical implementation experience

In depth knowledge of major EDA tools/design flows

Strong Cadence experience/background

Experience with TSMC N22 or below technology

Experience in chip integration and signoff

Experience in Perl/TCL language programming

Preferred Qualifications

Strong experience in Low-power implementation methodology

Strong experience in Advanced timing signoff methodology

Knowledge of DFT (BSCAN, MBIST, SCAN) and understanding of their impact on physical design flows

Able to independently complete Netlist-GDS P&R, signoff task

Proven record in multi-million gate design production tapeouts

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