Physical Design Methodology Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Oregon, Hillsboro, United States +4

This role focuses on physical design methodology for semiconductor manufacturing, specifically in design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) and system-design co-optimization (STCO). The engineer will create methodologies, models, and flows for advanced design rules, characterize these models through silicon validation, and optimize silicon designs for power, performance, and area (PPA). The role involves working with EDA tools and ensuring IP and SoC designs meet manufacturing process technology requirements.

What you'd actually do

  1. creating methodologies, models, and flows for advanced design rules for a specific process node and characterizes those models through silicon validation.
  2. Ensures IP and SoC design meets requirements and standards for a specific manufacturing process technology.
  3. Identifies ways to optimize silicon designs by evaluating device performance over a range of operating conditions.
  4. Resolves prototype issues and determines whether problems are design or process related.
  5. Conducts experiments to identify potential challenges in the process and ensure that the process meets yield, quality, and reliability standards.

Skills

Required

  • electrical engineering
  • Computer Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • digital design and signoff
  • Netlist RTL-GDS place and route (APR)
  • signoff tasks

Nice to have

  • semiconductor technology
  • Intel's leading process design rules
  • Cadence
  • Synopsys EDA tool/flow
  • optimizing PPA for low power designs
  • GPU/AI

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced design rules
  • silicon validation
  • PPA