Physical Design Lead

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MTS SILICON DESIGN ENGINEER  (AECG ASIC PD FCL)

THE ROLE: 

We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivative design engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The Physical Design Engineering team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development. 

THE PERSON:  

Engineer with good attitude who seeks new challenges and has good analytical and communication skills. Candidate needs to have the ability and desire to learn quickly and should be a good team player.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Handling SOC floorplanning/Partitioning, Die size estimation
• Experience on abutted and non-abutted designs

• Handling of Hierarchical designs (Subfcs), Block partitioning, block pin placement, Feedthrough punching, HFN implementation

• Planning clock Mesh/Tree at SOC/Sub System level

• Bump Planning and RDL routing

• Handling different PNR tools - Synopsys Fusion Compiler, ICC2, Design Compiler, PrimeTime, StarRC, Mentor Graphics Calibre, Apache Redhawk, Cadence Genus, Innovus
• Provide technical support to other teams 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:  

• 8-12 years of professional experience in physical design, preferably ASIC designs.
• Knowledge on bump placement/critical IP placement.
• Experience in automated synthesis and timing driven place and route of RTL blocks for high speed datapath and control logic applications.
• Experience in automated design flows for clock tree synthesis, clock and power gating techniques, scan stitching, design optimization for improved timing/power/area, and design cycle time reduction.
• Experience in floor planning, establishing design methodology, IP integration, checks for logic equivalence, physical/timing/electrical quality, and final signoff for large IP delivery
• Strong experience with tools for logic synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and design checks for physical and electrical quality, familiarity with tools for schematics, layout, and circuit/logic simulation
• Versatility with scripts to automate design flow.
• Strong communication skills, ability to multi-task across projects, and work with geographically spread out teams
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and pronounced attention to details

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:  

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering 

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