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.

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.

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
- Good 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.)
- Robust TCL/Perl/Makefile scripting knowledge.
- Experience in developing complex algorithms, managing, and regressing P&R; flows.
- Familiar with chip-finishing issues (metal-fill, spare-cells, DFM rules, boundary-cells, etc.) for the latest generations of process technologies. Experience in tool set such as Cadence Genus, Cadence Innovus, Mentor Calib

📌 Manager, Physical Design (Pune)
🏢 Ampere Computing
📍 Pune