Senior Standard Cell Library Design Manager

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Penang, Malaysia

This role manages a team responsible for the development and optimization of standard cell libraries for Intel's technology nodes, focusing on circuit design, layout, characterization, and modeling to achieve best-in-class PPA for both internal and external customers. It involves technical leadership in circuit design, managing engineers, and collaborating with process technologists and EDA vendors.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads and manages the strong and vital organization of the Standard Cell Library team in Malaysia that spans across all functions of the Standard Cell Library organization.
  2. Responsible for enabling teams to execute through clear goal setting, facilitating work, maintaining accountability, driving team results, and applying differentiated performance management.
  3. Assume a leadership role managing a group of engineers, leaders, and managers in circuit design development, layout design development, extraction/characterization execution activities, FE/BE modeling, reliability/IR drop characterization, driving automation, and standardization of standard cell library development and validation flows.
  4. Work on designing and characterizing standard cell libraries in the latest technology node, while also advancing the concepts of circuit design at the transistor level, as well as modeling and analyzing performance.
  5. Communicate effectively with customers to ensure that all project milestones are met on time.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of experience in standard cell library domains (circuit design, layout, extraction, characterization, modeling, validation, etc.)
  • Deep working knowledge of digital logic design and standard cell library development in advanced nodes
  • Ability to understand and interpret industry benchmarks, create and drive strategies
  • Ability to work independently and manage diverse assignments
  • Strong self-initiative, persistence, and ability to deal with ambiguity and pressure
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

  • In-depth knowledge in digital design (CMOS combinatorial/sequential logic, circuit/layout)
  • Familiarity with design tradeoffs, standard cell modeling, extraction, and characterization
  • Familiar with foundry ecosystem and benchmarking practice
  • Technical, analytical, customer-oriented, and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Ability to work in a dynamic and matrix team-oriented environment
  • Experience in designing specific cells (flip flops, clock gating, level shifters, power gating)
  • Clear understanding of CMOS device characteristics and design rules in submicron process nodes (FINFET)
  • Familiarity in high sigma variation analysis
  • Experience in standard cell circuits optimization for PPA
  • Familiarity with layout design and parasitic optimization
  • Involvement in layout extraction and understanding of layout dependent parameters
  • Understanding of timing/leakage characterization of Standard cells
  • Scripting capability in TCL/PERL/Python
  • Strong Analytical and Logical skills

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of demonstrable experience in most of the standard cell library domains such as circuit design, std cell layouts, extraction, characterization, modeling, physical view abstraction, logic view modeling, reliability and IR drop characterization, validation, quality assurance, documentation and library releases including customer support.