Staff Physical Design Engineer, Lightmatter

• If your passion is innovation, solving challenging technical problems and doing impactful work you should join our team!
• Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
• At least 8+ years of industry experience working as a Physical Design Engineer
• Must have completed blocks or top level physical design for large ASICs or mixed signal chips that taped out
• Thorough knowledge of timing closure, LVS/DRC closure
• Experience in TCL and Python (or other scripting languages)
• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple functional teams across a variety of fields
• Ability to react to change and thrive in a fast paced environment

Desirable

• We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Physical Design Engineer to work on the implementation of complex digital blocks
• In this role, you will leverage your expertise in advanced process nodes (3nm) to drive timing closure, power integrity, and physical verification for high-performance ASICs
• Beyond standard digital flows, you will have the unique opportunity. To work alongside a team of world-class scientists and engineers in defining how the system will be optimized and trailblaze problems that are new to the photonics industry
• Implement digital blocks in advanced tech nodes from synthesis through physical verification, using industry standard tools and flows
• Understand and debug timing constraints, derates and margins. Review signoff STA reports and fix timing violations for all timing scenarios
• Build and customize power grid and ensure power integrity goals are met
• Understand clock details and be able to customize clock implementation for functional and test clocks
• Debug and clean up DRC/LVS
• Functional and timing ECO implementation
• Be willing to do manual layouts as well as willingness to learn and do silicon photonics layout
• Work with EDA companies to resolve any tool issues
• Write TCL, Python, or Shell scripts to automate flow or customize existing flows