Senior Microprocessor VLSI Physical Design Engineer
Hybrid (Fort Collins, Colorado)$178.4kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior-level VLSI physical design engineer to lead high-speed design for AMD’s next-generation cores and caches, based in Fort Collins, CO.
Responsibilities
- Technical lead for high speed VLSI design in deep submicron processes.
- Work closely with RTL and physical designers across multiple sites to optimize power, performance, area, and schedule.
- Solve design and tool problems requiring ground-breaking approaches that utilize AI native skills and champion innovation across the organization.
- Create technical presentations for peers and management.
- Guide and mentor junior engineers.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience in high-speed VLSI design
- Excellent understanding of computer architecture, hardware concepts & design tradeoffs required
- Knowledge of Chip Level Floor planning, Bus / Pin Planning, Clock Tree Synthesis, Placement, Optimization, Routing, Parasitic Extraction, Static Timing Analysis, IR drop analysis, electromigration, Physical Verification and Sign Off.
- Comprehend complex Verilog RTL and make minor modifications for timing or power.
- Knowledge of digital circuits, high speed flops, synchronizers, level shifters, and SRAM.
- Familiar with programing languages such as Perl, C, tcl, etc.
- Experience with a variety of AI Agents to increase engineering efficiency and automation
- BS/MS in EE, CS, CSE (or similar) preferred.
Skills
Required:High-speed VLSI designComputer architectureVerilog RTL
Nice to have:Floor planning / Routing / STA / parasiticsDigital circuit conceptsProgrammingAI for engineering automation
Benefits
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Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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