Physical Design Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

Physical Design Engineer responsible for delivering end-to-end Physical Design and Analog Layout for Intel's Hard-IP portfolios, supporting implementation from RTL/Netlist through GDSII. The role involves synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, static timing analysis, and power/clock distribution, as well as verification and signoff.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execute physical design implementation from RTL to GDS, including synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, floor planning, static timing analysis, and power/clock distribution.
  2. Conduct verification and signoff, including formal equivalence verification, reliability verification, static and dynamic power integrity, layout verification, electrical rule checking, and timing analysis.
  3. Identify and resolve violations, making recommendations for current and future product architectures.
  4. Optimize designs to enhance metrics such as power, frequency, and area using industry-standard EDA tools.
  5. Develop and improve physical design methodologies, automation flows, and processes.

Skills

Required

  • RTL-to-GDS flow
  • synthesis
  • placement
  • routing
  • design-for-test
  • EDA tools
  • timing methodology
  • constraints development
  • low-power designs
  • multiple power domains
  • layout verification
  • Perl
  • TCL
  • Python

Nice to have

  • VLSI circuits
  • sub-micron CMOS technologies
  • high-speed digital circuits
  • computer architecture
  • logic design fundamentals
  • Verilog
  • System Verilog
  • mentorship
  • team leadership