Sr. SOC/ASIC Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)
SpaceX· Silicon Engineering
Austin, TXFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior SOC/ASIC Physical Design Engineer to develop cutting-edge silicon for SpaceX Starlink infrastructure, collaborating with ASIC teams to drive architectural feasibility, timing, power/area targets, and robust signoff through physical design flows.
Responsibilities
- Perform partition synthesis and physical implementation steps (e.g. synthesis, floorplanning, power/ground grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage drop, logic equivalency and other signoff checks)
- Develop/improve physical design methodologies and automation scripts for various implementation steps
- Closely collaborate with the ASIC design team to drive architectural feasibility studies, develop timing, power and area design targets, and explore RTL/design tradeoffs
- Resolve design/timing/congestion and flow issues, identify potential solutions and drive execution
- Run, debug, and fix signoff closure issues in static timing analysis (STA), noise, logic equivalency, physical verification, electromigration and voltage drop
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
- 5+ years of ASIC and/or physical design flow development experience in industry
Skills
Required:ASIC/SoC RTL2GDSII physical design and signoff flowsIndustry standard EDA toolsFinFET/CMOS physicsCMOS digital design principles
Nice to have:CMOS power dissipationCMOS analog circuit designDFT/Scan/MBIST/LBISTScripting
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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