Senior Physical Design Engineer, Cloud Silicon

Google Google · Big Tech · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Physical Design Engineer role focused on developing custom silicon solutions for data center accelerators that power machine learning computation. The role involves defining and implementing physical design methodologies, managing timing and power, and collaborating with various engineering teams (architecture, verification, power, etc.) to deliver high-quality designs for next-generation hardware. While the silicon accelerates ML, the role itself is in hardware engineering, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive the implementation of physical design methodologies.
  2. Take ownership of one or more physical design partitions or top level.
  3. Manage timing and power consumption of the design.
  4. Contribute to design methodology, libraries, and code review.
  5. Define the physical design related rule sets for the functional design engineers.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience with advanced design, including clock/voltage domain crossing, Design for Testing (DFT), and low power designs.
  • Experience with System on a Chip (SoC) cycles.
  • Experience in high-performance, high-frequency, and low-power designs.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
  • Experience in coding with System Verilog and scripting with TCL.
  • Experience with VLSI design in SoC or multiple-cycles of SoC in ASIC design.
  • Experience with layout verification and design rules.

What the JD emphasized

  • 8 years of experience with advanced design, including clock/voltage domain crossing, Design for Testing (DFT), and low power designs.
  • Experience with System on a Chip (SoC) cycles.
  • Experience in high-performance, high-frequency, and low-power designs.