FCT Physical Design Engineer

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THE ROLE: 

The North America SoC Physical Design Team within the  GPU Technologies and Engineering is looking for a highly experienced Design professional with strong industry experience to join the Full-Chip Timing Team.   As a member of the GPU Technologies and Engineering (G&E) group, you will help bring to life cutting-edge designs. As a member of the Physical Design team, you will work closely with the architecture, IP design, front-end design/integration teams, and product engineers to achieve first pass silicon success.

THE PERSON:

A successful candidate will work with senior silicon design engineers. The candidate will be highly accurate and detail-oriented, possessing good communication and problem-solving skills, and be comfortable with large high-speed designs.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Drive STA closure on critical and high performance clocks.
• Bring deep knowledge and experience in Physical design and full chip timing and STA sign-off and apply them to large, challenging, leading-edge designs to ensure high quality on time delivery.
• Collaborate with design leads in other PD domains.
• Deep knowledge of FCT flow development.
• Bring significant experience in effective team leadership to help mentor, coach and grow the RTG  Physical Design Team with an emphasis on positive influence on team morale and culture.
• Technically influence different aspects of Physical Design including Floorplanning, Clock Tree Synthesis, Placement, Optimization, Routing, and Parasitic Extraction to creatively solve timing problems.
• Experience and understanding of flow development and scripting.
• Strong Technical problem and debugging solving.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Expert in STA and timing closure on complex SOC's in advanced process node.
• Extensive experience in ASIC Physical Design in latest process nodes.
• Working experience on CAD tools from Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor Graphics required.
• Must be a self-starter and able to independently and efficiently drive challenging and time critical tasks to on-time completion.
• Understanding of Place & route, Timing Analysis, clock tree distribution, Physical Verification, Chip Integration.
• Experience with tcl/Perl/Shell scripting.
• Experience on 3D stack timing analysis and sign-off a plus.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering.

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