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Senior Principal Engineer, PD Expert (MCU and derivative devices)

Austin, TEXAS, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior technical authority defining Physical Design Architecture, Technology aspects, Foundry selection, and PPA for MCU and derivative devices, serving as the primary interface between the internal SoC Physical Design organization and the foundry.

Role type

Senior Principal Engineer, Physical Design Expert (MCU)

Builds

SoC and MCU designs for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT applications

Domain

Semiconductor Physical Design, Embedded Systems, AI-driven cost reduction

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Physical Design architecture definition, Foundry selection and PPA optimization, Multi-node tapeout experience, Physical partitioning, Latency and pipeline planning, IO and AC requirement definition, Die-size and KPI alignment, AI strategy implementation for cost reduction

Preferred skills

Experience with TSMC processes, Methodology team collaboration, External vendor management

Technologies

TSMC, SoC Physical Design, AI tools for design cost reduction

Responsibilities

Serve as primary technical point of contact with TSMC for Physical Design; Lead AI initiatives to reduce MCU development costs; Define physically realizable architecture for MCU designs with system architects; Drive physical partitioning, latency, pipeline planning, IO & AC requirements; Align Die-size & PPA targets & KPI for SoC/MCUs

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