Senior Principal Physical Design Engineer
Core
Lead and execute advanced physical design activities for complex SoC and IP blocks, achieving performance, power, and area targets.
Role type
Senior Principal IC physical design engineer
Builds
Large-scale digital designs from RTL to GDSII for cutting-edge semiconductor products
Domain
Semiconductor / ASIC Physical Design
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work -> production ML models (Incorrect mapping in thought, correcting to: production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work -> infrastructure (GDSII/SoC)) -> Actually, the deliverable is the physical design implementation (GDSII) and optimized SoC blocks. Let's map to the closest standard: infrastructure (as it builds the hardware infrastructure) or product features. Given the context of 'SoC and IP blocks', 'product features' or 'infrastructure' fits. Let's use 'product features' as SoCs are the product.
Required skills
RTL-to-GDSII physical design, floor planning, power planning, place and route, clock tree synthesis, static timing analysis (STA), formal verification, DRC, LVS, low-power design techniques (clock gating, power gating, multi-voltage), EDA tool optimization, scripting automation (Tcl, Perl, Python), semiconductor physics, DFM principles
Preferred skills
Mentorship of junior engineers, evaluation of new EDA tools, defining design specifications from physical implementation perspective
Technologies
Cadence Innovus/Tempus, Synopsys Fusion Compiler/PrimeTime, Ansys RedHawk/PathFinder
Responsibilities
Lead physical design execution from RTL to GDSII, optimize design flows and scripts, perform critical path analysis, collaborate with design/architecture/verification teams, mentor engineers, integrate new EDA tools, develop low-power techniques, generate design documentation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities