Senior BackEnd (Physical design) Engineer

For an exciting well-funded start-up, we are looking for a Backend Team member.

You will work on complex design, high frequency and low-power budget. Work on ramp-up full RTL2GDSII flow for leading technology and work with external vendors.

Requirements

Key responsibilities:

• RTL-to-GDSII Ownership: execute the complete backend implementation flow (Logic Synthesis, P&R, Tape-Out, IR-drop, etc.), ensuring timely, first-pass silicon success.

· Constraints & Timing Closure: Work with design and DFT engineers to write timing and physical constraints, and sign-off on the design using comprehensive Static

Timing Analysis (STA), timing eco implementation.

· Advanced Physical Implementation: Drive complex physical design tasks including Floorplanning, Power/Ground (PG) Mesh implementation, and handling advanced

clocking (CTS/Clock-Mesh) and Hierarchical Design flows.

· Low Power Expertise: Define, implement, and verify advanced low power design techniques to meet aggressive power consumption targets.

· Design for Manufacturability: Implement and verify Design-for-Test (DFT) strategies and close physical verification challenges, specifically focusing on IR-Drop

analysis.

· IP Integration & Automation: Execute complex IP integration, incorporating blocks generated by memory compilers and other automated tools.

• Collaboration: work closely with design team to understand the data path and correctly implement the floorplan, provide feedback on RTL changes required, Implement logical eco post RTL freeze with design team.
• CAD: Improve existing implementation flows to achieve better QOR, write scripts for supporting the P&R flows.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience of 10+ years in backend design
• Strong expertise of full RTL2GDSII including:
• Logic synthesis & equivalence checking
• Constraints definition and writing
• Complicated IP integration
• Memory compilers and other automated block generators
• DFT
• Floorplanning, PG Mesh
• P&R
• Low power design including definition, implementation and verification
• Timing STA
• IR-Drop
• BS/MS in EE/CE from lead universities

Preferred Qualifications

• Team player
• Highly motivated
• Learning abilities
• Good communication