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Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

SpaceX· Silicon Engineering
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Irvine, CA$125k - $160kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

SpaceX is hiring a Physical Design Engineer to develop next-generation ASICs for Starlink, working with cross-disciplinary teams to enable connectivity in space and ground infrastructure. The role focuses on physical design, RTL-to-GDSII flow, and collaboration with ASIC design teams to meet timing, power, and area targets for space-qualified chips.

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:RTL-to-GDSII physical designEDAs and physical design tooling
Nice to have:CMOS/FinFET physicsCMOS digital design principles and standard cellsCMOS power dissipation in deep submicron processesDFT/Scan/MBIST/LBISTScripting

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Discounts and perks
  • 3 weeks of paid vacation and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave per company policy
  • Potential eligibility for long-term incentives, stock or cash awards, bonuses, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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