What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Physical Design Engineer (P&R) position at Encore Semi, Inc.?
Position Title: Senior Physical Design Engineer
Location: San Diego, CA (onsite) or 100% remote / work from home
Full-time: Salary Benefits Bonuses
Work Status: US Citizen or US Permanent Resident
Responsibilities
Location: San Diego, CA (onsite) or 100% remote / work from home
Full-time: Salary Benefits Bonuses
Work Status: US Citizen or US Permanent Resident
Responsibilities
- Perform block level implementation using place and route techniques to meet area/timing and power requirements
- Drive clock tree planning and implementation to achieve best energy, performance, and area
- Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution
- Work directly with Synthesis/Timing Team to ensure Design closure
- Manage quality deliverables for execution excellent in physical design
- Deep Understanding of all aspects of Physical Design, Integration, STA, and Physical Verification
- Hands on experience in block-level floor-planning, power planning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, LVS/DRC/ERC, timing closure, signoff, and engineering change orders (ECO's)
- Knowledge and skills in optimizing PPA through floor-planning, placement and timing constraints, useful skew, and similar techniques
- Experience with the Cadence digital EDA toolset (Innovus / Quantus / Tempus / Conformal)
- Ability to use scripting languages to automate process flow
- Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills
- BSEE with 8 years of experience
- MSEE with 5 years of experience
- Experience working with communications chips
- Ability to be proactive and have a strategic mindset in addition to having tactical problem-solving experience
- Familiarity with industry standard interfaces
