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Cruise is looking for a Staff Physical Design Engineer to build the next generation autonomous vehicle platforms. In this role, you will work closely with SOC Architects, RTL Designers and the Physical Design TLM to provide PPA feedback of our custom IP and be a technical expert in the physical implementation and physical verification of high-performance and low-power complex IP and SOCs.

What you’ll be doing:

The Staff Physical Design Engineer will report to the Physical Design Technical Lead Manager within the custom silicon team. You will work as part of a team to own, and be responsible for, the successful delivery of complete RTL2GDS of cores/subsystems/chip-level from synthesis to tape-out at high-quality as required by the custom silicon program. In addition you will be responsible for the development of methodologies to support:

• Configuring design tools to suit target technology nodes

• Chip-level and block-level floorplanning

• Chip-level and block-level power-grid planning

• Hard-macro and cell placement

• Clock design and CTS

• Routing

• Performing post-route ECOs (base and metal layer)

• GDS fill and stream out

• Physical Verification (DRC / LVS / ERC / Antenna )

 

What you must have:

• BS or MS in Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent combination education.

• 15+ years of professional hands-on experience in physical design of high performance designs with frequencies > 1 Ghz

• You have strong expertise in full-chip and block-level floorplanning, power grid design, hard macro / SRAM placement, place and route, CTS, GDS stream-out and physical verification using any of the current generation of design tools (Innovus, ICC2, Fusion Compiler, IC-Validator, Pegasus, Calibre-LVS, Calibre-DRC)

• Proven tape-outs of large, complex SoCs with multiple clock and voltage domains using FinFet and/or GAA based technology nodes (16FFC/N7/N5/N3/N2)

• Strong scripting skills using TCL, PERL, Python, Makefiles, shell scripting

• Experience creating automated physical design methodologies

• Excellent communication and documentation skills and be willing to travel

 

Bonus points!

• Experience with the following: physical synthesis, RC-extraction, timing optimization and closure, static timing analysis, power analysis, ECOs, using any of the current generation of design tools (Design Compiler, Formality, Star-RCXT, PrimeClosure, PrimeTime, PrimePower, RedHawk, Genus, LEC, Cerberus, Certus, Voltus, Tempus, Quantus)

• Experience completing physical design of high speed memory (DDR, LPDDR, HBM) and SERDES based interfacing subsystems. (PCIe, USB, 1G/10G/25G Ethernet)

• Experience completing physical design of high-performance compute cores (ARM A-class CPUs, RISC-V CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, NPUs)

• Experience with standard HDL languages (VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog)

• Experience with Design For Test and Design for Debug tools and architectures

• Experience with automotive and safety critical applications including ISO 26262

• Experience developing AI-based physical design flows

 

The salary range for this position is $170,000 - 250,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

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