Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineer

4 weeks ago


California, United States Efficient Computer Full time

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineer to join our team at Efficient Computer. As a key member of our design team, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, low-power ASIC designs in advanced technology nodes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement physical design flows for multi-hierarchy low-power designs in advanced technology nodes.
  • Analyze and debug placement-, cts-, routing-, and buffering-related design and flow issues.
  • Own and deliver designs meeting sign-off timing targets within specified power envelope while managing constraints.
  • Lead the integration and/or delivery of IP while effectively highlighting trade-offs between power consumption and performance.
  • Engage with the digital design team to understand the architecture and address congestion and timing issues through design modifications and functional Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).
  • Engage with the DFT team to plan and provide early feedback on design decisions that relate to physical implementation.
  • Create scripts for EDA tools to automate tasks and enhance the throughput and quality of the physical design process.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of industry experience or PhD in Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of industry experience.
  • Proven track record of delivering block (or SoC) RTL2GDSII for multiple tape-outs in 22nm or below process technologies.
  • Experience with EDA flow using Cadence/Synopsys/Mentor tools for front-end (Synthesis/LEC), back-end (Place and Route), and verification/simulation (Physical Verification) with hierarchical design and abstraction techniques.
  • Hands-on experience in place & route, power and clock-tree implementation, and timing convergence of high-frequency designs.
  • Knowledge of static timing analysis, defining constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions.
  • Experience with low power implementation typical in industry, including advanced knowledge of UPF standard (IEEE-1801).
  • Excellent scripting skills in TCL, Bash, and Python.

About Efficient Computer

Efficient Computer is developing the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose computer processor. Our patented technology uses 100x less energy than state-of-the-art commercially available ultra-low-power processors and is programmable using standard high-level programming languages and AI/ML frameworks. This level of efficiency makes perpetual, pervasive intelligence possible: run AI/ML continuously on a AA battery for 5-10 years. Our platform's unprecedented level of efficiency enables IoT devices to intelligently capture and curate first-party data to drive the next major computing revolution.



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