Senior Physical Design Engineer

3 weeks ago


Fort Collins, Colorado, United States Tenstorrent Full time
About the Role

Tenstorrent is a leading innovator in cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. As a pioneer in the industry, we are seeking a highly skilled Senior Physical Design Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of our high-performance AI chip.

Key Responsibilities
  • Physical Design Leadership: Define PD requirements by working closely with the front-end team, understanding the chip architecture, and driving physical aspects early in the design cycle.
  • Design Implementation: Physical design tasks including synthesis, PnR, timing closure, area improvement, floorplanning, clocking, I/O planning, and power optimization.
  • Collaboration and Communication: Discussions with 3rd party IP providers, foundry partners, and design services.
  • End-to-End Tasks: End-to-end tasks from flow development to sign-off.
  • Innovation and Experimentation: Deploy innovative techniques for improving power, performance, and area of the design, drive experiments with RTL, and evaluate synthesis, timing, and power results.
Requirements and Qualifications
  • Education: BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS.
  • Experience: Hands-on experience with synthesis, block, and chip-level implementation with industry-standard PnR flows and tools.
  • Design Expertise: Strong experience in SOC/ASIC/GPU/CPU design flows on taped-out designs, expertise in timing closure at block/chip levels, and ECO flows.
  • Tool Proficiency: Experience with back-end design tools such as Primetime, Innovus, RedHawk, etc.
  • Low-Power Design: Knowledge of low-power design flows such as power gating, multi-Vt, and voltage scaling.
  • Programming Skills: Strong programming skills in Tcl/Perl/Shell/Python.
  • Logic Design Fundamentals: Excellent understanding of logic design fundamentals and gate/transistor-level implementation.
  • DFT and Debug: Exposure to DFT is an asset, and strong problem-solving and debug skills across various levels of design hierarchies.
  • Technology Node Experience: Prior experience working on high-performance technology nodes and understanding of deep sub-micron design problems/solutions.
Company Information

Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer. Due to U.S. Export Control laws and regulations, Tenstorrent is required to ensure compliance with licensing regulations when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries that have been sanctioned by the U.S. government.



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