Physical Design Engineer II (Silicon Engineering)
$155,000–$185,000 year
On-site · Austin, Texas, United States or Irvine, California, United States
Job Summary
Develop and implement physical design methodologies to deliver next-generation ASICs for SpaceX Starlink, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams (systems, firmware, architecture, design, validation, product engineering, ASIC implementation). Responsibilities include partition synthesis and physical implementation steps (synthesis, floorplanning, power/ground grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage drop, logic equivalency and other signoff checks); develop/improve physical design methodologies and automation scripts; work with ASIC design to drive architectural feasibility, timing, power, and area targets; resolve design/timing/congestion issues, run debug and fix signoff closure in STA, noise, logic equivalency, physical verification, electromigration and voltage drop.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
- 3+ years of professional experience working on RTL2GDSII physical design and/or physical design flow development
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
- 3+ years of professional experience working on RTL2GDSII physical design and/or physical design flow development
- Experience with industry standard EDA tools including understanding of their capabilities and underlying algorithms
- Knowledge of deep sub-micron FinFET and CMOS solid state physics
- Understanding of CMOS digital design principles, basic standard cells their functionality, standard cell libraries
- Understanding of CMOS power dissipation in deep submicron processes leakage/dynamic
- Familiar with CMOS analog circuit and physical design
- Basic knowledge of DFT/Scan/MBIST/LBIST and understanding of their impact on physical design flows
- Good scripting skills (csh/bash, Perl, Python, TCL, Makefile etc.)
- Self-driven individual with a can-do attitude, willing to learn, and an ability to work in a dynamic group environment
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