Sr. SOC/ASIC Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

6 days, 16 hours ago
Full-time
Senior
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 floorplanning, power and ground grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage drop, logic equivalency, and other signoff checks.
  • Develop and improve physical design methodologies and automation scripts for implementation steps.
  • Collaborate with the ASIC design team to evaluate architectural feasibility, define timing, power, and area targets, and assess RTL and design tradeoffs.
  • Resolve design, timing, congestion, and flow issues and drive execution of solutions.
  • Run, debug, and close signoff issues in static timing analysis, noise, logic equivalency, physical verification, electromigration, and voltage drop.
  • Work closely with cross-disciplinary teams including systems, firmware, architecture, design, validation, product engineering, and ASIC implementation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science.
  • 5+ years of ASIC and/or physical design flow development experience in industry.
  • Strong experience in ASIC/SOC RTL2GDSII physical design and signoff flows.
  • Strong experience with industry-standard EDA tools and understanding of their capabilities and underlying algorithms.
  • Knowledge of deep sub-micron FinFET and CMOS solid-state physics.
  • Knowledge of CMOS digital design principles, standard cells, and standard cell libraries.
  • Understanding of CMOS power dissipation in deep submicron processes, including leakage and dynamic power.
  • Familiarity with CMOS analog circuit and physical design.
  • Knowledge of DFT, Scan, MBIST, and LBIST and their impact on physical design flows.
  • Good scripting skills in csh/bash, Perl, Python, TCL, Makefile, or similar tools.
  • Self-driven with a can-do attitude, willingness to learn, and ability to work in a dynamic group environment.
  • Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or otherwise eligible for required U.S. Department of State authorization under ITAR.

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