Job Title: Staff Engineer, Physical Design
Job Location: Bangalore, India (This position requires a full-time, on-site presence in our Bangalore, India Office)
Job ID: AI2480
Job Description:
Role & responsibilities:
- Physical Design of blocks (from synthesis to GDS) and handle complex block implementation individually.
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PPA optimization.
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Develop and validate high performance and/or low- power clock network guidelines.
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Perform block-level place and route and close the design to meet timing, area and power constraints.
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Drive the logic equivalency RTL2Synthesis and Synthesis2APR netlist.
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Generate and implement ECOs to fix timing, noise and EM-IR violations.
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Run physical design verification flow at block level and provide guidelines to fix LVS/DRC violations to other designers.
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Participate in establishing CAD and physical design methodologies for correct-by-construction designs.
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Assist in P&R flow development and/or refinement for chip integration.
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Write scripts in TCL/Perl/Python to achieve productivity enhancements through automation.
Minimum Requirements:
- BSEE or MSEE with at least 6+ years of physical design experience on high complexity SoC designs using 7 nm or lower.
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Strong understanding of all aspects of physical construction, integration, sign-off and physical verification
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Good understanding of placement, clocking & routing strategies, challenges and their mitigation/solutions.
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To be able to work with logic/rtl design team for timing fixes.
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Solid understanding of extraction and STA methodology and tools description.
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Power user of industry standard physical design and signoff tools.
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Deep understanding of scripting languages such as Perl/Tcl/Python
Following expertise is a plus:
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Hands-on SoC floorplanning and expertise in analog, ESD etc. placement and related rules.
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SoC PV clean-up at floorplan stage
Personal Attributes:
Can-do attitude. Strong team player. Curious, creative and good at solving problems. Execution and results-oriented. Self-driven, Thinks Big and is highly accountable. Good communication skills.
