Hardware Engineer – Physical Design

Job Description/Responsibilities

The employee will work on the physical implementation of blocks from RTL to GDS in advanced FinFet technology nodes (7nm/12nm/14nm/16nm) and below. The employee will also share responsibilities across design and verification. His/her responsibilities will include the following:

• RTL synthesis, writing timing, area, and other relevant constraints.
• Floorplanning, power grid implementation, clock tree synthesis, place and route.
• Parasitic extraction and physical design verification.
• Static timing analysis, and timing closure.
• Lint, design for test, test coverage.
• EM/IR verification and logic equivalence/formal verification.
• Low-power design and power optimization.
• Collaborate with other members of the team to optimize design in context.
• Work with other team members to improve methodologies and flows.
• Support post-silicon product bring-up and debug, timing and power characterization.

Required Skills

• Experience with digital VLSI CMOS circuit design and physical design in advanced FinFet technology nodes.
• Experience with HDLs such as Verilog.
• Experience with industry-standard tools such as Design Compiler, ICC2, PrimeTime, Tetramax, RedHawk, ICV, Caliber LVS/DRC.
• Excellent debugging skills.
• Comfortable programming in a scripting language (e.g., Python or Perl) and writing full programs from scratch (e.g. 5000+ lines of code).
• Familiarity with revision-control systems (e.g., Perforce, git).
• Familiarity with using and/or designing FPGAs is a plus.
• Well organized, punctual, excellent communication skills; ability to operate without direct supervision; ability to collaborate with other team members.

Education and Experience

MS in Electrical Engineering with 3-10 years experience.