Description
Invent the future with us.
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 AI compute.
As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy effective high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.
Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply
About The Role
We are looking for an experienced Senior Manager, Physical Design / CAD to join our small but growing Processor Design group, advancing the art of high performance implementation and physical design.
Ideal candidates will develop and maintain physical design flows for high performance designs.
What You’ll Achieve
- Develop and support innovative physical design methodology and custom CAD
- Work closely with implementation and physical design (PD) team
- Debugging flow issues
- Running multiple test designs through flow on latest technologies to determine impact on technology changes to area, power and timing
- Automating new flow practices for general use in the design community
About You
- Bachelor's degree with 12 years or Master’s degree with 8 years of relevent experience
- Valuable communication and problem-solving skills
- Experience in physical design CAD flow including synthesis, place & route, and floor planning
- Preferred - power distribution, static timing analysis and physical design verification
- Experience in hierarchical P&R; and flow development.
- Experience with all aspects of PD including floorplanning, power-distribution, pad ring construction, placement, CTS, and routing.
- Understand hierarchical P&R; issues including top-level floorplanning, pin-assignment, clock-distribution, critical-signal handling, hierarchical abstractions (black-box, ILM, etc.)
- Strong TCL/Perl/Makefile scripting knowledge.
- Experience in