Physical Design Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering
AI summary of the role
Senior individual contributor serving as the physical design subject-matter expert for customer deployments with leading semiconductor companies.
What you’ll do
- Advise semiconductor customers and FDE teams on physical design workflows, constraints, and solution opportunities
- Shape AI-assisted solutions spanning floorplanning, place and route, timing closure, power, physical verification, and signoff
- Define evaluation datasets, benchmarks, rubrics, and acceptance criteria for physical design use cases
- Build or guide prototypes, methodology experiments, and internal tools to validate deployment opportunities
What you’ll bring
- BS with 7+ years, MS with 5+ years, or equivalent experience in physical design, physical implementation, or backend signoff
- Hands-on tapeout experience with floorplanning, place and route, CTS, timing closure, power analysis, physical verification, and signoff
- Deep familiarity with EDA flows for synthesis, PNR, STA, physical verification, equivalence checking, and power analysis
- Strong understanding of physical design interactions with microarchitecture, RTL, verification, libraries/PDKs, and system-level PPA trade-offs
Technologies
EDA · Python · Tcl · PNR · STA · ASIC · SoC · LLM
About OpenAI
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