Physical Design Engineer
Location: Bangalore, KA, India
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Description
Invent the future with us.
Recognized by Fast Company’s 2023 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators List, Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient, sustainable cloud computing.
By providing a new level of predictable performance, efficiency, and sustainability Ampere is working with leading cloud suppliers and a growing partner ecosystem to deliver cloud instances, servers and embedded/edge products that can handle the compute demands of today and tomorrow.
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team — we’d love to have you apply. Come invent the future with us.
About the role:
Our Physical Design Implementation Engineer will work with multi-functional global teams to implement Partition/Block level Synthesis, Floorplan, Place and Route, Timing closure, IR/EM and DRC/LVS closure for our next generation highly complex 5nm/3nm/advanced-node Server class Processor products.
PD work at Ampere is interesting, challenging, and will expand your professional breadth. We like to bring out the best in people, teach each other, and produce products that have value in the market.
In this role, you will be at the forefront of our groundbreaking AI compute solution. Our products combine high-performance general-purpose CPUs with AI capabilities, offering a compelling combination of efficiency and market reach. This revolutionary product is poised to deliver superior performance while consuming significantly less power.
What you’ll achieve:
- As a member of the PD Team, you will plan and implement a significant portion of the Chip Layout partnering with design and DFT engineering peers.
- You will create solutions to meet challenging frequency, power, area, clocking and design partition goals.
- You’ll get to work with custom and tool-driven CTS and physical design integration methodologies.
About you:
- B.Tech in Electronics Engineering or Computer Engineering with 5+ years of semiconductor experience, or M.Tech with 3+ years of experience.
- Good knowledge of EDA tools from Synopsys or Cadence or Mentor required. In particular experience with PTSI, Innovus, Calibre, StarRC, and Conformal LEC is essential.
- Good knowledge of VLSI process and device characteristics, to make optimal trade-off between performance and power.
- Good understanding of static timing analysis (STA), EM/IR and sign-off flows.
- Expertise in physical design of high frequency chips with emphasis on successful timing closure.
- Good understanding of physical design verification.
- Experience in implementation and design closure with advanced process nodes like 5nm, 3nm etc.
- Should be able to handle implementation and sign-off of moderately complex blocks independently
Strong hands-on experience with:
- Floor planning, place & route, power and clock distribution, pin placement and timing analysis.
- Timing convergence using high speed design techniques with signal integrity & EM/IR.
- Good scripting skills (perl, python, tcl).
- Self-driven individual and an excellent team player experienced in working with remote teams.
- Must have good communication skills and the ability and desire to work as a team.
What we’ll offer:
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. We offer an annual bonus program tied to internal company goals and annual meritocratic equity awards that enable our employees to participate in the success of the company.
At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits. We offer an annual bonus program tied to internal company goals and annual meritocratic equity awards that enable our employees to participate in the success of the company.
Benefits highlights include:
- Premium medical, dental, vision insurance, parental benefits including creche reimbursement, as well as a retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health, financial future and child care during work.
- Generous paid time off policy so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance
- Fully catered lunch in our office along with a variety of healthy snacks, energizing coffee or tea, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.
And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are passionate about inventing industry leading cloud-native designs that contribute to a more sustainable future. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process.
Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.
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