Physical Design Engineer
Core
Owns partition floor planning and executes physical design solutions from synthesis to signoff to achieve optimal Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) results for chip partitions.
Role type
Senior IC Physical Design Engineer
Builds
Chip partitions and sub-chips
Domain
Semiconductor / VLSI Physical Design
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Floorplanning, Synthesis, Placement and optimization, Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), Routing, Static Timing Analysis (STA), Physical Verification, Formal Equivalence, Power optimization, IR-drop analysis, Electromigration (EM) analysis
Preferred skills
Technology node evaluation, IP selection, EDA tool selection, Flow automation, Methodology improvement
Technologies
EDA tools, Custom clocking methods
Responsibilities
Lead and execute Physical Design activities at block and sub-chip levels, Evaluate and recommend technology nodes and vendor solutions, Contribute to Physical Design flow development and automation, Provide status updates on progress, risks, and mitigation plans
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
