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CPU Full Chip Physical Integration Engineer

Austin, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-21 → 2026-09-28

Core

Full chip physical design, integration, and verification for high-performance, low-power processor development.

Role type

Senior IC physical design engineer (CPU)

Builds

High-performance, low-power processor chips

Domain

Semiconductor / CPU design

Required skills

Full chip floorplanning, place and route (PnR), power grid design, EM/IR analysis, formal verification, scripting (Perl/TCL), DRC/LVS verification, STA methodology

Preferred skills

Low power design, custom layout integration, clock specification, DFM, CMOS circuit design, computer architecture

Technologies

Conformal LP, LEC, RedHawk, Calibre

Responsibilities

Own chip-level place and route (PnR) and final layout database construction; develop and validate power grid and routability; drive custom layout integration and electrical verification; work with SOC teams to meet IP delivery requirements; establish physical design methodologies and flows; automate tasks via scripting.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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