Description

Job Title: Principal Engineer, Physical Design

Job Location: Bangalore, India (This position requires a full time, in office presence in our Bangalore, India Office)

Job ID: AI2481

Job Description

Role & responsibilities:

• Hands-on SoC/Full-chip floorplanning, integration and P&R; along with P&R; Flow Development
• Establishes the integration plans for die with optimization for package and board constraints.
• Bump planning, Die file generation, closing loop with package team on signal and power bump placement restrictions.
• Create physical database for the IP or SoC. Collaborate with architects to optimize the placement of IPs for latency as well as die area/aspect-ratio.
• Collaborate with the design teams on clocking and dataflow to deliver the physical block level floorplans for APR.
• Derive specifications and collaterals for the IP blocks to execute the floorplan and automatic place and route (APR) at subsequent hierarchies.
• Coordinate with power delivery team on trade-offs for metal allocation for signal and power.
• Have excellent understanding on,



die-per-reticle/positive-die-per-wafer maximization, and right technology selection on metal layers usage maximization.
• Performs integration of all dies in a package and completes the relevant checks before tape-out.
• Supervise/lead/mentor junior team members.

Minimum Requirements

• BE/BTech or ME/MTECH with at least 15+ years of experience on high complexity SoC designs. At least one SoC in 7nm or lower.
• Demonstrating knowledge and implementation strategies to create an IO ring in accordance with design specifications.
• Possessing deep knowledge of ESD, latch-up, and other foundry requirements, as well as placement strategies.
• Having hierarchical design implementation knowledge, including partitions/HMs/tiles push down to each core/tile.
• Understanding feed-through planning and implementation.
• PG creation and push-down methodologies.
• Understanding Analog components and their placement

📌 Principal Engineer, Physical Design Bengaluru
🏢 SiMa.ai
📍 Bengaluru