Senior Physical Design Engineer (Floorplan & PnR)
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Envision Employment Solutions is currently looking for a Senior Physical Design Engineer (Floorplan & PnR) for one of our partners, an IT Services and IT Consulting company.
THE ROLE
A good floorplan makes every stage that follows easier, and a bad one haunts the project to tapeout. You'll own the implementation side of physical design, from partitioning and power planning through placement, CTS and routing, on some of the most advanced technology nodes out there.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own floorplanning, partitioning, pin assignment and power mesh design at block and full chip level
- Run placement, CTS, routing and optimisation to close PPA targets
- Drive clock tree planning and analysis, and scan reordering
- Close physical verification: DRC, LVS, antenna, ERC
- Resolve EM/IR issues and contribute to low power implementation
- Work closely with STA, DFT and RTL teams through to signoff
- Complete multiple design cycles with little supervision
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 10+ years of RTL to GDSII experience on 10nm or below nodes, with designs of 500k to 1M+ instances
- Power user of PnR tools from Synopsys and/or Cadence (ICC2, Fusion Compiler, Innovus)
- Excellent floorplan, power plan, CTS, place, route and timing closure skills
- Strong EM/IR, DRC, LVS and ERC analysis and fixing
- Good knowledge of synthesis and DFT scan insertion
- Proficiency in Tcl, Perl, Python and Makefile
- Tapeout experience; top level floorplanning is a plus
YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF YOU
- You can look at a floorplan and see the congestion before the tool does
- You enjoy the puzzle of balancing power, performance and area
- You work well on your own and still keep the wider team in the loop
- You take pride in a clean DRC and LVS run
- You want to work at the leading edge of process technology
Skills
As published by workable · 17 questions · 9 written answers
Basics
First name, Last name, Email, Headline, Phone, Address, Photo, Education, Experience, Summary, Resume, Cover letter
Short answers (1)
- If you were referred to this role by a recruiter, please provide their name.
Pick from a list (7)
- How did you hear about us?
- Are you currently based in Egypt?
- Would you be willing to travel or relocate outside Egypt if the role requires it?
- Do you have 10+ years of experience in physical design?
- Have you owned floorplanning and place and route at 10nm or below?
- Have you worked on designs of 500k+ instances?
- Have you completed at least one tapeout with physical verification signoff?
Written answers (9)
- How would you rate your English proficiency (written and spoken)?
- Which PnR tools have you used, and at which process nodes?
- Walk us through how you approached the floorplan and power plan on your most complex block.
- Describe a congestion or CTS problem you solved and how you got there.
- Tell us about an EM/IR issue you had to fix late in a project.
- What's the largest design you've taken from netlist to GDSII, and what was your role?
- What is your current monthly net salary?
- What are your expected monthly net salary requirements?
- When can you start? (Notice Period)
