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Staff SoC Layout/EDA Designer

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Description

Description

Summary

As Staff Layout Designer, you will work as part of a cross-functional, global team delivering System-on-Chip (SoC) products from concept to high volume production for the consumer, industrial, and automotive industries.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

  • Work with analog/RF/mixed-signal design engineers and digital engineers to create/optimize layouts of complex blocks and chip-level SoC macros

  • Work on continuous-improvement projects to automate/customize layout work flows through scripting and batch-mode operations

  • Produce high quality analog/RF/mixed-signal macros using industry best practices for layout and physical verification

  • Own block-level layout designs and top-level floor planning including full hierarchical verification/debug

  • Lead, document, and communicate layout design flows and reviews efficiently including the tape-out process and project database management/archive

  • Help manage/support layout contractors and mentor junior layout designers

  • Collaborate with global team engineers/designers to ensure designs are specification compliant and on time

  • Work independently on complex tasks while staying in sync with team activities/plan

Required Experience and Skills

Qualifications

  • Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering or related field

  • 8+ years relevant industry work experience required

  • Strong working skills with Cadence Virtuoso and PDK layout design tools (OA, CDL, GDS).

  • Strong working skills with physical verification tools (Pegasus/Calibre) and flows (DRC, LVS, ERC, PERC, LVL)

  • Detailed experience with analog/RF/mixed-signal layout in deep sub-micron, CMOS nodes (40nm and lower)

Desired Experience and Skills

Desired Skills:

  • Understanding of LDE, ANT, ESD/LUP, NTN/TW/SOI isolation, matching, PnR parasitics, and EMIR concepts

  • Knowledge of digital physical design flows and techniques (VHDL, Verilog, LEF, DEF)

  • Knowledge of scripting with Linux shell, Makefile, Modules, SKILL, TCL, Python and/or AI-LLM clients

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