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SoC Physical Design Engineer, PnR

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Hybrid (Austin, Texas)full-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Seasoned Physical Design technical leader with deep expertise in high-performance and low-power design, responsible for end-to-end physical design implementation from RTL to GDS, and for driving methodologies, guidelines, and issue resolution across timing, area, and power in large SOCs.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for all aspects of physical design implementation from RTL2GDS including PnR, bump/RDL, STA, physical verification, EMIR, sign-off
  • Collaborate to drive methodologies and 'best-known methods' to streamline PD work and develop guidelines and checklists
  • Serve as primary technical contact for focus area and address challenging timing closure, area & power optimization issues
  • Provide expertise in partition level P&R implementation including floorplanning, clock & power distribution, timing closure, and physical & electrical verification
  • Contribute to PD construction & analysis flows and methodology
  • Execute to stringent schedule & die size requirements
  • Leverage industry-standard tools and understand their capabilities and underlying algorithms
  • Support and influence tapeouts in deep submicron technology
  • Work with cross-functional teams to consider physical design constraints early in the design cycle

Qualifications

  • Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Knowledgeable in partition level P&R implementation including floorplanning, clock & power distribution, timing closure, and physical & electrical verification
  • Knowledge of PD construction & analysis flows and methodology
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Recent successful tapeouts in deep submicron technology
  • Experience with large SOC designs (>20M gates) with frequencies in excess of 1GHZ
  • Shown ability to execute to stringent schedule & die size requirements
  • Experienced in industry standard tools and understanding their capabilities and underlying algorithms

Skills

Required:Physical designFloorplanningTiming closurePhysical verificationEDA tools
Last updated Jul 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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