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Physical Design Engineer

Building AI chips that are hard-coded for individual model architectures.

Physical Design Engineer  

Seeking exceptional PD engineers to join our team. The candidate will be responsible for working with 3rd party design services to implement and verify physical designs, and will help as we work to improve iteration speed on physical design.

Representative projects:

• Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service
• Deeply understand what is involved in physical design
• Running Physical Design flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate Physical Design flows, improve CAD infrastructure
• Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to Physical Design
• Optimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features
• Accountable for block level closure

Requirements:

• 2+ years of previous experience with PD
• Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off
• Experience with back-end design and timing closure on 3nm-7nm
• Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification, synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, IR drop, and EM/antenna analysis
• Deeply creative and able to think from first principles

Desired qualifications:

• Familiarity with transformer models and machine learning.
• Familiarity with OpenROAD and other automated RTL-to-GDSII flows
• ​Ability to program with Python or another scripting language.

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