Lead Physical Design Engineer, Place & Route
MarkhamCA$155.2k - CA$232.8kFull-timePosted 3w ago
About the role
Senior Physical Design Engineer leading place-and-route and physical implementation for complex ASIC designs within AMD's GPU Technologies and Engineering team, focusing on timing, congestion, power closure, and signoff from floorplanning to signoff.
Responsibilities
- Lead place-and-route execution from floorplanning through signoff.
- Drive timing, congestion, and power closure for complex designs.
- Develop and optimize floorplanning, placement, clock tree, and routing strategies.
- Identify and resolve critical physical design and implementation issues.
- Perform timing analysis, parasitic extraction, and power integrity analysis.
- Execute physical verification and signoff activities, including ERC and LVS.
- Provide technical guidance and drive implementation quality across design activities.
- Partner with architecture, design, integration, and product engineering teams to deliver successful silicon.
- Enhance physical design methodologies, automation, and implementation flows.
Qualifications
- Experience with ASIC physical design and implementation flows.
- Strong expertise in place-and-route methodologies for complex designs.
- Experience with floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and timing closure.
- Experience resolving timing, congestion, power, and signal integrity challenges.
- Experience with physical verification and signoff methodologies, including ERC and LVS.
- Experience with advanced-node and high-speed design implementations.
- Proficiency with Synopsys Fusion Compiler, Cadence, and Siemens EDA tools.
- Experience with TCL, Perl, or Shell scripting for design automation and flow development.
- Experience providing technical leadership across physical design activities.
Skills
Required:Physical designFloorplanningPlacementClock tree synthesisRoutingTiming closurePower integrityPhysical verification
Nice to have:Scripting for automation
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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