Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Physical Design / CAD Engineer, Principal level, to join our small but growing Processor Design group, advancing the art of high performance implementation and physical design. Ideal candidates will develop and maintain physical design flows for high performance designs. What you\'ll do Develop and support innovative physical design methodology and custom CAD Work closely with implementation and physical design (PD) team Debugging flow issues Running multiple test designs through flow on latest technologies to determine impact on technology changes to area, power and timing Automating new flow practices for general use in the design community What you\'ll bring Good communication and problem-solving skills Experience in physical design CAD flow including synthesis, place route, and floor planning Preferred - power distribution, static timing analysis and physical design verification Experience in hierarchical PR and flow development. Experience with all aspects of PD including floorplanning, power-distribution, pad ring construction, placement, CTS, and routing. Understand hierarchical PR issues including top-level floorplanning, pin-assignment, clock-distribution, critical-signal handling, hierarchical abstractions (black-box, ILM, etc.) Strong TCL/Perl/Makefile scripting knowledge. Experience in developing complex algorithms, managing, and regressing PR flows. Familiar with chip-finishing issues (metal-fill, spare-cells, DFM rules, boundary-cells, etc.) for the latest generations of process technologies. Preferred Qualifications Experience in tool set such as Cadence Genus, Cadence Innovus, Mentor Calibre is a Big Plus Education Experience BS / MS in EE/CSE with 8+ years of experience

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