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Physical Design Engineer – Milpitas, CA

We're looking for a hands-on Physical Design Engineer to support complex SoC projects for our client who designs and delivers advanced System-on-Chip solutions across multiple emerging technologies. They provide high-performance custom solutions for cutting-edge applications. You'll collaborate with customers, frontend, and integration teams to ensure successful tape-outs, contributing across all phases of physical design. Profile of preferred candidate includes 10 + years of hands-on experience, custom ASIC, strong communication skills, experience with multiple tape outs from inception, small company experience. Local candidates are preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

+ Pre-layout STA for feasibility and timing constraint validation

+ Chip/block-level floorplanning and pin assignment

+ Clock spec review and clock tree synthesis

+ Placement, routing, and timing optimization

+ Sign-off tasks: RC extraction, STA, IR-drop analysis, and physical verification

+ Customer meetings and technical presentations

Qualifications:

+ BSEE with 5+ years experience; MSEE preferred

+ Strong experience in ASIC physical design and SoC development (28nm/16nm)

+ Proficient in ICC2/Innovus, scripting (Perl/Tcl/Python)

+ Knowledge of frontend design and hierarchical layouts

+ Familiar with power/IR-drop tools (PrimePower/Redhawk) and STA (PrimeTime)

+ Skilled in PV tools and debugging PV errors

+ Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

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