CareerPlan

Physical Design , Principal Engineer/Director, (Custom Silicon Group)

Bangalore, IndiaFull-time2026-09-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the development and delivery of next-generation, high-performance SoCs from concept to tapeout, serving as a key customer-facing engineering leader.

Role type

Principal/Director-level Physical Design Engineer (Custom Silicon)

Builds

High-performance System-on-Chips (SoCs) for next-generation mobile and connected devices

Domain

Semiconductor / Custom Silicon / Hardware Engineering

Required skills

Physical Design (PnR), Floor Planning, Placement, Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), Static Timing Analysis (STA), Power Analysis, Signoff (Timing, Power, Area), Low Power Verification, Physical Verification, Deep sub-micron design expertise, Leakage power management, Signal Integrity, DFM

Preferred skills

Hands-on experience with 2nm/3nm/4nm/5nm nodes, Low Power/High Performance optimization, LEC/CLP/PDN knowledge

Technologies

Advanced technology nodes (2nm, 3nm, 4nm, 5nm), PnR flows, STA flows

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team across multiple functions and sites; Execute design closure and tapeout in advanced technology nodes; Complete ownership of PnR implementation including floor planning, placement, CTS, and post-route activities; Collaborate to resolve issues related to constraints validation, verification, STA, Physical Design, and tapeout; Provide technical leadership during design reviews and executive-level customer engagements; Drive resolution of customer-reported issues by coordinating across design, verification, firmware, software, and validation teams.

Seniority

Principal/Director, hands-on IC with strategic leadership