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Senior Physical Design Methodology Engineer, Innovus Flows

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $168,000–$168,000🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Developing innovative physical design methodologies for GPU, CPU, Network processors, and SOC implementation to optimize PPA (Power, Performance, Area) and runtime on advanced technology nodes.

Role type

Senior Physical Design Methodology Engineer

Builds

High-performance chip hardware for Datacenter AI, HPC, Networking, Robotics, and Autonomous driving

Domain

Semiconductor Physical Design / EDA / Advanced Process Technology

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Physical Design flow development, PPA optimization, STA, extraction, timing/RC correlation, low power design (UPF), EM/IR analysis, synthesis flows, EDA tool scripting (TCL, Perl, Python, C++)

Preferred skills

AI/ML application to EDA, data analysis/ML libraries (NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch), Cadence Innovus suite proficiency

Technologies

Innovus, Genus, Tempus, Quantus, Joules, UPF, FSDB, SAIF

Responsibilities

Develop physical design methodologies for implementation of processors and SoCs; Drive tool and methodology improvements with internal/external partners; Apply AI/ML approaches to CAD to improve design performance and efficiency

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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