Fullchip Floorplan Design Engineer

Intel Corporation

Physical Design Floorplanning Engineer at Intel focusing on SoC technologies and top-down floorplan activities. Collaborating to optimize designs while ensuring schedule delivery.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeFort Collins • California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Oregon, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $105,650 - $200,340 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PerlPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Top-down SoC Floorplan activities like best IP placement for latency/area in collaboration with architects, partitioning, PG grid creation, multi-power domain planning, pin-cutting, bump-planning by working with package/platform.
Estimate die-area and define optimal physical dimensions for SoC by including product costs like die-per-reticle, right technology selection/metal stack and reuse from different product family.
Drive execution and supervise progress of smaller blocks or sub-systems influencing their physical placement, shape, and channel planning to help them achieve best area and convergence schedule.
Plan short and long-term work schedule, understanding dependencies between different domains like top, block place and route.
Collaborate with other stake holders like the clock design to deliver the physical block level floorplans for APR and with the power delivery team on tradeoffs for metal allocation for signal and power.
Help drive methodologies, tools and best-known methods to streamline Floorplan Physical Design work to achieve best-in-class on schedule delivery.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering with 3+ years of relevant experience or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering with 2+ years of relevant experience.
2+ years of experience using industry-standard EDA tools for floorplanning and APR.
1+ years of experience with multi-power domain designs.
1+ years of experience with Synopsys Fusion Compiler.
3+ years of experience with TCL, Python or Perl programming.
2+ years of experience with Calibre or ICV verification.

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive pay
stock bonuses
health
retirement
vacation

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Hard Skills & Tools

SoC FloorplanIP placementdie-area estimationphysical dimensions definitionmulti-power domain designTCLPythonPerlSynopsys Fusion CompilerCalibre

Soft Skills

collaborationsupervisionplanningunderstanding dependenciesmethodology development