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Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

SpaceX· Silicon Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$135k - $210kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

SpaceX is hiring a Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering) to develop next-generation ASICs for Starlink, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver advanced semiconductor designs for space and ground infrastructure.

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
  • 1+ years of professional experience working on RTL2GDSII physical design and/or physical design flow development

Skills

Required:EDA tools knowledgeFinFET/CMOS physicsCMOS digital designPower dissipation in deep submicron processes
Nice to have:CMOS analog circuit and physical designDFT/Scan/MBIST/LBISTScripting

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards)
  • discretionary bonuses
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • short and long-term disability insurance
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • paid sick leave policy
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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