BackEnd (Physical design) Engineer

For an exciting well-funded start-up, we are looking for a Backend Team member.

You will work on complex design, high frequency and low-power budget. Work on ramp-up full RTL2GDSII flow for leading technology and work with external vendors.

Requirements:

Key responsibilities:

• RTL-to-GDSII Ownership: execute the complete backend implementation flow (Logic Synthesis, P&R, Tape-Out, IR-drop, etc.), ensuring timely, first-pass silicon success.

• Constraints & Timing Closure: Work with design and DFT engineers to write timing and physical constraints, and sign-off on the design using comprehensive Static

Timing Analysis (STA), timing eco implementation.

• Advanced Physical Implementation: Drive complex physical design tasks including Floorplanning, Power/Ground (PG) Mesh implementation, and handling advanced

clocking (CTS/Clock-Mesh) and Hierarchical Design flows.

• Low Power Expertise: Define, implement, and verify advanced low power design techniques to meet aggressive power consumption targets.

• Design for Manufacturability: Implement and verify Design-for-Test (DFT) strategies and close physical verification challenges, specifically focusing on IR-Drop

analysis.

• IP Integration & Automation: Execute complex IP integration, incorporating blocks generated by memory compilers and other automated tools.

• Collaboration: work closely with design team to understand the data path and correctly implement the floorplan, provide feedback on RTL changes required, Implement logical eco post RTL freeze with design team.

• CAD: Improve existing implementation flows to achieve better QOR, write scripts for supporting the P&R flows.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience of 5+ years in backend design

• Strong expertise of full RTL2GDSII including:

• Logic synthesis & equivalence checking

• Constraints definition and writing

• Complicated IP integration

• Memory compilers and other automated block generators

• DFT

• Floorplanning, PG Mesh

• P&R

• Low power design including definition, implementation and verification

• Timing STA

• IR-Drop

• BS/MS in EE/CE from lead universities

Preferred Qualifications

• Team player

• Highly motivated

• Learning abilities

• Good communication

• Work with external vendors

• Experience in Synopsys/Cadence tools is an advantage

• Low power techniques

• Clock-mesh/ multi source cts

• Hierarchical design flow

• Experience in tape-out procedures

• RTL code reading

A very interesting job and good conditions are guaranteed to the candidates