CareerPlan

ASIC Physical Design Engineer, Netlisting - New College Grad 2026

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$116k–$190k2026-08-13 → 2026-11-11

Core

Drive physical design of high-frequency and low-power CPUs, GPUs, SoCs at block, cluster, and full chip levels, focusing on netlist-related aspects like equivalence checking, asynchronous checking, and logic synthesis.

Role type

ASIC Physical Design Engineer (Netlisting)

Builds

High-performance CPUs, GPUs, and SoCs for AI computing, gaming, and accelerated computing

Domain

Semiconductor / ASIC Design / AI Hardware

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Logic equivalence checking, Formal Verification, RTL/logic design, Clock-domain-crossing checking, MTBF analysis, Logic synthesis, EDA tools (Synopsys/Cadence), Scripting (Perl/TCL/Python)

Preferred skills

AI utilization for workflow improvement, Strong debugging capability

Technologies

Synopsys, Cadence, Perl, TCL, Python, Make

Responsibilities

Drive physical design of high-frequency and low-power CPUs, GPUs, SoCs at block level, cluster level, and/or full chip level, with a focus on netlist-related aspects such as equivalence checking, asynchronous checking including clock domain crossing checks and MTBF analysis, logic synthesis, netlist quality checks, etc.; Help in ECO generation and implementation.

Seniority

Junior, New College Grad 2026