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Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineering Technical Lead

Cisco 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America

$214,100 - $309,800 Full-time Senior

Lead RTL-to-GDSII implementation and optimize performance, die size, timing, and power integrity across full-chip designs. Improve design flows and methodologies, guide clock-tree strategies, drive STA and sign-off convergence, implement ECOs, and collaborate with RTL, DFT, implementation, EDA vendors, and tool teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead RTL-to-GDSII implementation and optimize performance, die size, timing, and power integrity across full-chip designs. Improve design flows and methodologies, guide clock-tree strategies, drive STA and sign-off convergence, implement ECOs, and collaborate with RTL, DFT, implementation, EDA vendors, and tool teams.

Requirements

  • Requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with 12+ years of physical design experience, a master's degree with 8+ years, or a PhD with 5+ years. Candidates must have full-chip experience, RTL-to-GDSII tapeouts at 7nm/5nm/3nm or below, and experience with tools such as Innovus, PrimeTime or Tempus, RedHawk or Voltus, and Calibre.

Benefits

  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) With Matching Contributions
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Short-Term Disability Coverage
  • Long-Term Disability Coverage
  • Life Insurance
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid Holidays
  • Floating Holiday
  • Birthday Leave
  • Year-End Holiday Shutdown
  • Personal Wellness Days
  • Paid Vacation
  • Sick Leave
  • Family Emergency Leave
  • Paid Volunteer Days
  • Annual Bonus

Key Skills

Physical design RTL‑to‑GDSII implementation Synthesis Floorplanning Place and route Timing analysis Power integrity ECO implementation Static timing analysis (STA) Clock‑tree design Design for test (DFT) coordination Cadence Innovus Synopsys PrimeTime Synopsys Tempus Mentor Calibre RedHawk Voltus Design flow improvement Methodology development Cross‑functional team collaboration EDA vendor interaction Scripting (Tcl, Python) Design verification Chip‑level optimization

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