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Chelsea Search Group, Inc.

Senior Physical Design Engineer (remote)

Chelsea Search Group, Inc., San Diego, California, United States, 92189


Senior Physical Design Engineer

• Start Date: by November 4

• Work Status: US Citizen only

• Hourly Rate: $80-$90 on 1099 or C2C

• 100% remote / work from any US location

• 6-12 months contract with possible extensions

The ideal candidates should be highly proficient in using all the Synopsys EDA tools/flows with little to no ramp-up time needed to make an immediate impact. You will be responsible for doing all aspects of SOC Physical Design implementation.

Required Qualifications:

Experience: 10+ years

Synopsys Fusion Compiler/ICC2 (Synthesis, DFT insertion, Place & Route, Chip Finishing, PT-SI STA, Timing Closure, PV (DRC/ERC/PERC/LVS)

Synopsys DC, DCG, DC TOPO

Synopsys Flow Development & SOC implementation methodologies that will be deployed and used by customer’s Physical Design Implementation team members

Familiar with Synopsys Lynx a plus

RTL Hand-over experience a plus for RTL to GDS

Experience with top-level floorplanning, bump-maps, RDL IO Pad/Ring creation/verification, power grid creation/verification, hierarchal floorplanning/partitioning

Solid experience with full SOC clocking methodologies (H-Tree, Structure Clocking, MS CTS for Top/Blocks with push/down & bottoms up approaches)

Highly proficient with SDC STA constraints development driving back-end tools for blocks and full-chip through timing closure & sign-off

Ability to define sign-off requirements/margins based on Foundry technology requirements a plus

DFT experience with compression, scan, TDF, and MEMBIST a plus

Synopsys Formality for formal verification (RTL to Gate, Gate-to-Gate) & Formality ECO flows

Familiar with UPF flows & methodologies for multi-voltage power domains with turn on/turn off using UPF

Synopsys ICV for PV (Physical Verification – DRC/ERC/LVS/PERC)

Ansys Redhawk SC (For IR analysis for static, dynamic, & EMIR)

Experience in PD implementation/design closure on complex IP Sub-Systems such as PCIe, USB, MIPI, DDR, & HBM a plus

Experience with GlobalFoundries, TSMC, & Samsung technology nodes are a plus

Consultants should have a solid track record on execution delivering to high-quality standards for delivering to high quality tape-out

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