Physical Design Engineer II (Silicon Engineering)

16 hours, 27 minutes ago
Full-time
Mid Level
IoT and Embedded Systems
SpaceX

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the aim of revolutionizing space technology and enabling human life on other planets.

Aerospace & Defense
10K-50K
Founded 2002

Description

  • Perform partition synthesis and physical implementation, including synthesis, floorplanning, power/ground grid generation, place and route, and signoff checks.
  • Develop and improve physical design methodologies and automation scripts for implementation workflows.
  • Collaborate with the ASIC design team on architectural feasibility studies and RTL/design tradeoffs.
  • Develop timing, power, and area design targets with cross-disciplinary engineering teams.
  • Resolve design, timing, congestion, and flow issues and drive execution of solutions.
  • Run, debug, and fix signoff closure issues in STA, noise, logic equivalency, physical verification, electromigration, and voltage drop.
  • Work alongside systems, firmware, architecture, design, validation, product engineering, and ASIC implementation teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science.
  • 3+ years of professional experience in RTL2GDSII physical design and/or physical design flow development.
  • Experience with industry-standard EDA tools and understanding of their capabilities and underlying algorithms (preferred).
  • Knowledge of deep sub-micron FinFET and CMOS solid-state physics (preferred).
  • Understanding of CMOS digital design principles, standard cells, and standard cell libraries (preferred).
  • Understanding of CMOS power dissipation in deep submicron processes, including leakage and dynamic power (preferred).
  • Familiarity with CMOS analog circuit and physical design (preferred).
  • Basic knowledge of DFT, Scan, MBIST, and LBIST and their impact on physical design flows (preferred).
  • Good scripting skills with tools such as csh/bash, Perl, Python, TCL, and Makefile (preferred).
  • Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed to meet critical project milestones.

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