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Senior Physical Design Engineer

US, MA, Westford💼 Full-time💰 $136,000–$136,000🗓 2026-07-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead physical design and implementation of System-on-Chip (SoC) devices for networking markets, focusing on partition, chiplet, floorplan, power/clock distribution, and timing closure.

Role type

Senior IC physical design engineer (SoC/Networking)

Builds

High-speed communication chips (Networking Silicon)

Domain

Semiconductor / Networking / VLSI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

VLSI physical design implementation, RTL2GDS flow, place and route, timing closure, power and clock distribution, physical verification, RC extraction, CAD tool expertise (Synopsys/Cadence), analytical debugging

Preferred skills

ML/AI application in design flow, scripting (Python/Perl/Tcl/Make)

Technologies

Synopsys ICC2/DC/PT/STAR/ICV, Cadence Genus/Innovus/Tempus, 5nm/4nm/3nm nodes

Responsibilities

Lead physical design and implementation of SOC devices, establish physical design methodologies and flow automation, perform chip floorplan and assembly, conduct power and noise analysis, execute trial synthesis and place & route

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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