Physical Design Engineer
22 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, United States
METANLYTICS LLC
Full-time
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Position : Physical Design Engineer
Location : Palo Alto, CA (Full Onsite)
Rate : 90-100/hr
Client : HCL/Tesla
Job ID : 166019
Number of Positions : 5
JD for PD:
- Exposure to TSMC 2NP/3NP is must
- Perform end‑to‑end physical design flow:
- Floorplanning
- Power planning (PG grid, IR)
- Placement & optimization
- CTS (Clock Tree Synthesis)
- Routing
- Post‑route optimization
- Achieve timing closure across all modes and corners
- Resolve DRC, LVS, ERC and signoff violations
- Handle low‑power design techniques:
- Multi‑Vt, Multi‑voltage (UPF)
- Power gating, clock gating
- Perform physical verification and signoff:
- STA (Primetime)
- SI / Crosstalk
- IR drop & EM analysis
- Work on advanced nodes (7nm, 5nm, 3nm or below)
- Collaborate with:
- RTL & Micro‑architecture teams
- DFT & Test engineers
- Foundry and CAD teams
- Debug complex timing, congestion, power, and variability issues
- Drive methodology improvements and automation (scripts/flows)