Physical Design Engineer - Neuromorphic Computing

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Oregon, Hillsboro, United States +3

Intel is seeking a Physical Design Engineer to work on their Neuromorphic Computing Lab, focusing on designing novel computing paradigms for physical AI systems. The role involves ensuring designs meet performance, area, power, and scan coverage targets, working with RTL designers, and running synthesis and place-and-route trials.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand design dataflow and chip-level floor-planning constraints to set up partition floorplans with macro/pin placements and keep-outs.
  2. Work with RTL designers to define timing constraints; run synthesis and place-and-route trials; fix timing, EM/IR and DRC violations.
  3. Run back-annotated VCS+SDF simulations and iterate on meeting power/performance targets.
  4. Write custom scripts and define tool flows to manipulate synthesis and physical design tools for low power/high performance custom designs.

Skills

Required

  • physical design experience
  • synthesis
  • place and route
  • timing closure
  • layout closure
  • scripting languages (Perl, TCL, Python)

Nice to have

  • chiplet integration
  • advanced packaging
  • static timing
  • Synopsys tools (Fusion Compiler, Primetime, VCS)
  • EDA/CAD software development
  • asynchronous architectures and circuits