• ASIC Physical Design Technical Leader

    Cisco (San Jose, CA)


    The application window is expected to close on: 05/15/25

     

    Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

    Meet the Team

    The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. Come join us and take part in shaping Cisco's ground-breaking solutions by designing, developing and testing some of the most complex ASICs being developed in the industry.

    Your Impact

    You'll be joining our Physical Design team at Cisco Silicon One group, which is responsible for the entire development process of RTL to GDS, leading development of high quality VLSI designs. Responsibilities include:

     

    * Fullchip Floorplan and Partition/Pin assignment.

    * Fullchip Clock Planning (Experience with both H-Tree and Clock Mesh architectures).

    * Interface with Fullchip STA team on timing constraints.

    * Power Planning and Robust Power Grid planning for lower technology nodes.

    * Fullchip Physical Verification.

    Minimum Qualifications

    * Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent similar experience.

    * 10+ years of experience in Physical Design.

    * Experience working on Fullchip activities.

    * Experience with RTL2GDSII flow and design tapeouts in 7nnm/5nm/3nm or below process technologies.

    * Experience working with EDA tools like Innovus, Tempus/Primetime, Redhawk/Voltus or Calibre.

    Preferred Qualifications

    * Exposure to static timing analysis and concepts, defining timing constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions.

    * Experience in Full-chip floor-planning and power grid planning.

    * Experience with custom clock (H-Tree or Mesh) at chip level

    * Experience with Python, TCL, Perl programming.

    * Leadership/Mentorship experience.

     

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