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Sr. SOC/ASIC Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

SpaceX· Silicon Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$175k - $280kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior ASIC/SoC physical design engineer responsible for partition synthesis, physical implementation, signoff, and collaboration with ASIC design teams to achieve timing, power, and area targets for Starlink silicon.

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 toolsDeep sub-micron FinFET and CMOS physicsCMOS digital design principles and standard cells
Nice to have:CMOS power dissipation and leakage/dynamicDFT/Scan/MBIST/LBIST in physical designScriptingCollaboration and self-motivation

Benefits

  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short & long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • vacation and holidays (3 weeks vacation, 10+ holidays)
  • sick leave (5 days)
  • stock options and long-term incentives
  • employee stock purchase plan
  • discretionary bonuses and other perks
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