Principal Physical Design Engineer

An exciting opportunity awaits at a pioneering startup revolutionizing the AGI compute platform! This forward-thinking company specializes in fully integrated solutions spanning from silicon to systems, custom-built for extensive ML workloads. They are currently seeking silicon physical design engineers to contribute to the development of high-performance, sustainable GenAI silicon.

Ideal candidates will play a crucial role in delivering efficient, functionally accurate silicon solutions for compute, memory management, high-speed connectivity, and other essential technologies using cutting-edge process nodes. Join this innovative team at the forefront of AI hardware engineering!

Job Description: Physical Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop scalable solutions for silicon and physical design methodologies across blocks, subsystems, and full-chip designs.
• Lead chip-level physical design tasks including floor-planning, placement, routing, optimizations, timing closure, and verification.
• Conduct reviews and provide progress updates based on critical PPA metrics.
• Collaborate closely with design, DFT (Design for Testability), and other key stakeholders.
• Coordinate effectively with design services partners and third-party vendors on block-level and chip-level closure.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience transitioning RTL to silicon, driving physical design for subsystems and/or top-level functions within ASICs and SOCs, from early RTL design and netlist to production silicon.
• Proven expertise in floor planning, place and route, clock tree insertion and analysis, timing analysis, physical verification, electrical sign-off, and related areas to prepare tapeout-ready GDS for large physical blocks and/or top-level designs.
• Demonstrated project experience collaborating with design, verification, and DFT teams to optimize design partitioning for PPA and sign-off.
• Experience in managing third-party design services partners, preferably involved in advancing subsystems and/or top-level designs from initial floor plan to sign-off and tapeout.