CPU Physical Design Engineer
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 6–12 Years
Role Overview
We are looking for a CPU Physical Design Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in implementing high-performance CPU cores and complex SoC blocks. The role involves driving physical implementation, timing closure, PPA optimization, and signoff for performance-critical CPU designs.
Key Responsibilities
Own physical implementation from netlist to GDSII across floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, optimization, and signoff.
Work on high-performance CPU cores, critical datapaths, and timing-sensitive blocks.
Drive timing closure across complex MMMC scenarios with aggressive performance targets.
Analyze and optimize setup/hold, clock skew, congestion, buffering, transition, capacitance, and signal integrity issues.
Perform PPA optimization with focus on frequency, power, and area.
Drive clock-tree synthesis and optimization, including skew, latency, useful skew, and clock quality.
Execute physical ECOs and timing ECOs to achieve signoff targets.
Debug issues across RTL, synthesis, constraints,



physical implementation, and STA.
Work closely with CPU Architecture, RTL, STA, Synthesis, DFT, and Signoff teams.
Contribute to physical design methodology, automation, and flow optimization.
Support full-chip integration and top-level timing closure for CPU/SoC designs.
Core Technical Requirements
6–12 years of hands-on Physical Design experience.
Strong experience with CPU / high-performance digital designs.
Deep understanding of floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, optimization, and physical signoff.
Strong expertise in STA, timing analysis, and timing closure.
Experience with MMMC, SDC constraints, PVT corners, OCV/AOCV/POCV, and timing methodologies.
Robust understanding of clock architecture, skew optimization, clock gating, and CTS.
Experience debugging setup/hold violations, congestion, SI/crosstalk, transition and capacitance issues.
Hands-on experience with industry-standard tools

📌 CPU Physical Design Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Leadsoc Technologies
📍 Bengaluru