Principal Engineer,SOC Physical Design

Key Responsibilities

• Lead physical design activities for SoC or large subsystems, including floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, and signoff closure.
• Define and drive physical design strategies to meet aggressive performance, power, and area goals.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with architecture, RTL design, STA, power, verification, and backend teams to ensure seamless integration and closure.
• Develop and maintain physical design methodologies, design guidelines, and automation scripts to enhance productivity and quality.
• Manage congestion, timing, power integrity, and manufacturability challenges during physical implementation.
• Communicate design status, risks, and mitigation plans effectively to senior management and stakeholders.

14+ years of experience in SoC physical design with expertise in physical implementation flows (floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing) at advanced nodes (7nm, 5nm, or below).

• Proven track record leading complex SoC or subsystem physical design projects, balancing power, performance, and area while managing congestion and timing closure.
• Strong proficiency with industry-standard EDA tools (Synopsys ICC2, Cadence Innovus, PrimeTime) and scripting skills (Tcl, Python, Perl) for automation and methodology development.
• Deep understanding of SoC design flows with demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across timing closure, power integrity, clocking, verification, and backend teams, including experience in developing physical design methodologies.
• Knowledge of power delivery network (PDN) design and integration. Familiarity with low-power design techniques including power gating and clock gating.
• Understanding of design for test (DFT) and its influence on physical design.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills to drive cross-team success.

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, Analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.