Silicon Physical Design Engineer

About the company

• Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in AI computing systems, part of the SoftBank Group
• Designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware
• Opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru

Responsibilities

• Contribute technically to the development of next-generation AI superchips
• Use state-of-the-art EDA tools and in-house flows to deliver sign-off quality designs
• Enhance existing flows and in-house tools/APIs to support new features and methodologies
• Analyse and debug complex engineering problems
• Optimise in-house flows and methodologies
• Work closely with other teams and third-party support engineers/contractors

Requirements

• Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related subject with 3+ years of industry experience
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to program/script, typically in Tcl and Python
• Experience in 7nm or smaller technologies
• Experience with physical design flows: floorplanning/budgeting, synthesis, place and route, clock CTS, logical equivalence, timing analysis, physical verification (DRC/LVS/ERC)

Desirable

• In-depth expertise in one or more aspects of physical design flows
• Structuring builds to maximise PPA
• Silicon transistor knowledge including std cell libraries and memories
• 5D and 3D design (CoWoS, UCIe)
• High speed, high power and/or full reticle chip design
• Ethernet, PCIe, LPDDR, HBM interfaces
• Power integrity and optimization
• 2nm or 3nm technologies
• Chip finishing, design for test, team management, project planning

Conditions

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible approach to interview