PD - Sr Staff - Physical Design

2 weeks ago

Bay Area Vancouver or Toronto, Canada Eliyan Full time
Join the leading chiplet startup As an Eliyan Sr Staff / Principal Physical Design Engineer, you will be working at a fast-paced early-stage startup creating technologies that fuel tomorrow's chiplet based systems with best-in-class power, area, manufacturability, and design flexibility. You will drive the development of cutting-edge ASICs from RTL to GDSII. You will work with a cross-functional team of industry experts that operate from first principles, innovate, and push the envelope to create high-volume and high-performance manufacturable products. In this role, you will oversee and optimize the entire design flow, including synthesis, place-and-route (PNR), static timing analysis (STA), electromigration/IR drop analysis (EM/IR), and physical verification (PV – DRC, LVS, Antenna). You will also focus on developing and improving design flows and methodologies to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery. We offer a fun work environment with excellent benefits. Key Responsibilities:
  • Define and execute block and partition physical design strategy for multiple projects, ensuring alignment with company goals and timelines.
  • Drive continuous improvements in flow efficiency, automation, and quality metrics to meet power, performance, and area (PPA) targets.
  • Handle the complete ASIC physical design process for blocks or partitions, from RTL handoff to GDSII delivery.
  • Develop, optimize, and maintain ASIC design flow and block specific customizations for synthesis, PNR, EM/IR analysis, STA, and PV.
  • Collaborate with front-end design teams on RTL, static timing design constraints, and design-for-test (DFT) collaterals.
  • Drive floor planning, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, and physical optimization in PNR.
  • Perform EMIR analysis, timing closure through STA, and physical verification, including fill, DRC, LVS, and antenna checks.
  • Ensure successful tapeout with full sign-off criteria met, including reliability and manufacturability requirements.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including front-end design, DFT, package engineering, and manufacturing.
  • Present project updates and status reports to executive leadership.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Expertise in multiple areas of physical design, timing, and signoff for large, medium, and small ASICs.
  • Specific experience in mixed signal SOC physical design and standard PHY implementation like D2D, PCIe, multi-gig SerDes etc.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills – Tcl, Python, Makefiles.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
Ideal Qualification:
  • 8-12 years of experience in ASIC physical design, with a proven track record of leading junior engineers through successful tapeouts.
  • Deep expertise in the following areas: RTL-to-GDSII flows Synthesis, PnR, STA, EM/IR, and PV Physical design for advanced process node (5nm and below) across two or more foundries
  • Strong knowledge of EDA tools (Synopsys or Cadence) and scripting (Python, Perl).
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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