Work as part of a global circuits team alongside custom circuit designers and custom mask designers to deliver physical designs of innovative circuits for hardware security, adaptive clocking, and power management solutions.
Responsible for all aspects of physical design and implementation of custom macros for GPU and other ASICs targeted at the desktop, laptop, workstation, and mobile markets.
Lead all custom circuit IP level PD activities for the macros assigned to you.
Drive the physical implementation of custom mixed signal IPs using industry standard tools and novel custom AI automated place and route tools.
Participate in establishing physical design methodologies, flow automation, floorplan, power/clock distribution, custom IP P&R, and timing closure.
PD activities include floor plans, abstract view generation, RC extraction, PNR, STA, EM,IR DROP, DRCs & schematic to layout verification.
Work in collaboration with design team to address design challenges.

Requirements

BSEE (MSEE preferred) or equivalent experience.
6+ years of experience in large VLSI physical design implementation on 5nm, 4nm and/or 3nm technology.
Successful track record of delivering designs to production is a requirement.
Good understanding of the RTL2GDSII concepts related to synthesis, place & route, CTS, timing convergence, layout closure.
Good knowledge and experience in Block-level Floor-planning and Physical verification.
Working experience with tools like ICC2/Innovus, Primetime/Tempus etc used in the RTL2GDSII implementation.
Strong knowledge and experience in standard place and route flows ICC2/Synopsys and Innovus/Cadence flows preferred.
Well versed with timing constraints, STA, and timing closure.
Good automation skills in Python, PERL, TCL, tool specific scripting on one of the industry leading Place & Route tools.
Proficiency using Perl, Tcl, Make scripting is preferred.

Benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

VLSI physical designcustom circuit designphysical design implementationtiming closurefloor planningphysical verificationRTL2GDSIIplace and routeautomation scriptingmixed signal IP

Soft Skills

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Certifications

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