Cpu Core Senior Physical Design Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · California, Folsom, United States

Senior Physical Design Engineer for CPU core development, responsible for the full physical design flow from RTL to GDS, including synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, power analysis, and verification. Collaborates with other engineering teams and EDA vendors to optimize CPU design for power, frequency, and area.

What you'd actually do

  1. Performs physical design implementation of custom CPU designs from RTL to GDS to create a design database that is ready for manufacturing.
  2. Conducts all aspects of the CPU physical design flow including synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, floor planning, static timing analysis, power/clock distribution, reliability, and power and noise analysis.
  3. Conducts verification and signoff including formal equivalence verification, static timing analysis, reliability verification, static and dynamic power integrity, layout verification, electrical rule checking, and structural design checking.
  4. Analyzes results and makes recommendations to improve current and future CPU microarchitectures closely collaborating with logic, circuit, architecture, and design automation teams.
  5. Possesses CPU specific expertise in various aspects of structural and physical design, including physical clock design, timing closure, coverage analysis, multiple power domain analysis, structured placement, routing, synthesis, and DFT.

Skills

Required

  • VLSI circuit design and synthesis
  • Static timing analysis
  • Low power design
  • Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Computer Science or Electrical/Electronic Engineering or any STEM related degree and 6+ years of experience OR master's degree in computer engineering, Computer Science or Electrical/Electronic Engineering or any STEM related degree and 4+ yrs. of experience

Nice to have

  • x86 CPU architecture
  • Tcl/Perl/Python programming