Description

Invent the future with us.

Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an creative 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 current 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
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