Physical Design Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Perform Synthesis, floor planning, placement, Clock, routing, and PPA optimization for High Speed Advance ASICs.
• Define and drive physical design strategies to meet aggressive performance, power, and area targets.
• Conduct detailed analysis of timing, power, and area, and drive design optimizations to improve QoR.
• Block/Partition signoff closure for STA, PV, LEC, IR/EM, CLP very efficiently.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the physical design team, mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of excellence.
• Work closely with RTL design and DFT teams to understand design requirements and constraints, and drive successful tapout of designs.
• Support and Development of advanced physical design methodologies and flows for complex semiconductor designs.

Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or Electronics & Communications.
• 4+ years of experience in physical design of ASICs
• Proficiency in industry-standard EDA tools from Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics for Synthesis, PnR, Signoff Closure.
• Extensive experience with timing closure techniques, power optimization.
• Strong scripting skills using TCL, Python, or Perl for design automation and tool customization.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a track record of delivering high-quality designs on schedule.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor junior engineers, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Experience with advanced process nodes 3nm, 5nm, 7nm, 10nm including knowledge of FinFET technology.
• Expertise in Synthesis that includes details understanding of RTL, Early PnR timing issues, Constraint issue, design issues.
• Experience in handling Partitions and blocks for size estimation, pin assignment, CTS.
• Knowledge on Handling various custom IP such as PLL, Divider, Serdes, ADC, DAC, GPIO, HSIO for PD integration.
• Detailed Knowledge on Clocking methodology and various techniques to improve skew, latency, timing, power.
• Familiarity with low-power design techniques and methodologies, such as multi-voltage domains and power gating using UPF.
• Expertise in physical verification, including DRC, Antenna, LVS, PERC, and ERC checks.
• Expertise in Timing Closure including setup, hold, DRV, SI, Interface issues.
• Experience with formal verification for RTL to Netlist and Netlist to Netlist.
• Knowledge of emerging technologies such as machine learning and AI for design automation and optimization.