Senior Physical Design Engineer

Summary

The Senior Physical Design Engineer will manage end-to-end physical implementation of advanced VLSI designs, including floorplanning, timing closure, and signoff. The role requires expertise in PNR and industry-standard physical design tools to optimize for power, performance, and area.

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients


Min Experience: 4+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a Physical Design Engineer to work on end-to-end physical implementation of advanced VLSI designs.

Requirements

Responsibilities:
• Perform floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing and physical implementation.
• Drive timing closure and optimize designs for PPA.
• Perform static timing analysis and resolve setup/hold violations.
• Work on congestion, IR drop, EM and signal-integrity issues.
• Support physical verification including DRC/LVS and design signoff.
• Analyze and resolve physical design issues across implementation stages.
• Work with RTL, synthesis, STA and verification teams to achieve design closure.
• Develop and maintain Tcl-based automation/scripts for physical design flows.
• Support ECO implementation and final signoff activities.

Candidates should have hands-on experience in VLSI physical design and familiarity with industry-standard implementation and timing-analysis tools.

Must-have skills

PNR, floorplanning, TSMC

Good-to-have skills

cadence innovus, fusion compiler, physical design

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