Physical Design Engineer (15+ years)
Zealogics
- India
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design Implementation: Implement high-performance and low-power designs while meeting area, power, and performance (PPA) targets.
- Timing Closure: Perform timing analysis, optimization, and closure to meet timing constraints and achieve design goals.
- Power Optimization: Implement power optimization techniques such as power gating, clock gating, and voltage scaling to achieve low-power design objectives.
- Physical Verification: Perform physical verification tasks, including design rule checks (DRC), layout vs. schematic checks (LVS), electrical rule checks (ERC), and other sign-off checks.
- Technology Nodes: Work with advanced technology nodes and process technologies to ensure optimal design implementation and performance.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with front-end design teams, timing closure teams, synthesis teams, and other cross-functional teams to ensure successful tape-out of ICs and SoCs.
- Methodology and Tool Development: Contribute to the development and improvement of physical design methodologies, flows, and automation scripts to enhance productivity and quality.
- Experience: 15+ years of experience in physical design of complex ICs and SoCs, with hands-on experience in leading-edge technology nodes.
- Tools: Proficiency in using industry-standard physical design tools such as Cadence Innovus, Synopsys ICC, Mentor Olympus-SoC, etc., and familiarity with EDA tools for timing analysis and physical verification.
- Timing Closure: Expertise in timing closure techniques, static timing analysis (STA), clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis, and timing convergence methodologies.
- Power Optimization: Experience with power optimization techniques, power grid design, power distribution network (PDN) analysis, and low-power design methodologies.
- Physical Verification: Knowledge of physical verification methodologies, DRC/LVS/ERC checks, and sign-off criteria for tape-out readiness.
- Scripting and Automation: Strong scripting skills in languages like Tcl, Perl, Python, or Shell scripting for automation of design tasks, flows, and tool interactions.
- Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex issues, debug physical design problems, and propose effective solutions.
- Communication and Leadership: Strong communication, teamwork, and leadership skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and lead physical design projects.