CareerPlan

Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineer, Netlisting

US, CA, Santa ClaraFull-time$136k–$265k2026-09-17 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Drive physical design of high-frequency, low-power CPUs, GPUs, and SoCs at block, cluster, and full-chip levels, focusing on netlist quality, equivalence checking, timing closure, and asynchronous verification.

Role type

Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineer (Netlisting)

Builds

High-performance CPUs, GPUs, and System-on-Chips (SoCs)

Domain

Semiconductor / ASIC Design

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Logic equivalence checking (FV), Static Timing Analysis (STA), Clock-domain-crossing (CDC) checking, MTBF analysis, Logic synthesis, Timing constraints management, EDA tools, Scripting (Perl, TCL, Python)

Preferred skills

DFT timing closure, AI utilization for workflow improvement

Technologies

Industry-standard EDA tools, Perl, TCL, Make, Python

Responsibilities

Drive physical design for CPUs, GPUs, and SoCs; Perform equivalence checking and asynchronous verification; Manage timing convergence and ECO generation; Generate and manage timing constraints.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC