Senior Silicon Design Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Penang, Malaysia

Senior Silicon Design Engineer at Intel, focusing on physical design implementation of custom IP and SoC designs from RTL to GDS. Responsibilities include synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, static timing analysis, power/clock distribution, reliability analysis, and verification/signoff. The role involves optimizing designs for power, frequency, and area, and participating in methodology development. Requires Btech/Mtech with 10+ years of complex ASIC/SOC implementation experience, understanding of system/processor architecture, and proficiency in scripting languages.

What you'd actually do

  1. Performs physical design implementation of custom IP and SoC designs from RTL to GDS to create a design database that is ready for manufacturing.
  2. Conducts all aspects of the 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 fix violations for current and future product architecture.
  5. Possesses expertise in various aspects of structural and physical design, including physical clock design, timing closure, coverage analysis, multiple power domain analysis, placing, routing, synthesis, and DFT using industry standard EDA tools.

Skills

Required

  • Btech/Mtech with 10+ years of experience with complex ASIC/SOC Implementation
  • Solid understanding of system and processor architecture, and the interaction of computer hardware with software
  • Experience designing and implementing complex blocks like CPUs, GPU , and Media blocks and Memory controller.
  • Experience with System Verilog/SOC development environment.
  • Strong background in scripting - PERL,TCL, Phyton.
  • Understanding of Hardware validation techniques

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of Industry standard protocols - PCIE, USB, DRR, etc
  • Experience with Low power/UPF implementation/verification techniques
  • Experience with Formal verification techniques