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Tachyum Inc.

Physical Design Engineer

Tachyum Inc., Santa Clara, California, us, 95053


Responsibilities

Responsible for implementation of ultra-high performance and low power data processing chip

Work with RTL designers to achieve PPA goals and suggest appropriate tradeoffs

Floor-planning, experimenting with placement and routing techniques for better PPA

Do timing closure for very high frequency designs with possible hand placement of logic when needed

Help define low latency/low skew clock tree methodology/design

Help define appropriate power grid structures to meet EM/IR goals

Scripting and automating flows to improve turn-around times

Qualifications

Member of core team responsible for the crafting and timely delivery of PD partitions

Strong communication and interpersonal skills required to work with our global design team

Successful track record of mentoring junior engineers and interns a plus

More than 5 years of experience in high performance semiconductor designs

Verilog knowledge and an understanding of ASIC design flow

Expertise in logic synthesis, prototyping, timing analysis, floor-planning

Expertise in flow automation (Perl, Tcl, Python) and understanding of full PD methodology

Experience with Innovus on 7nm or lower technology nodes

A background in computer architecture is desirable

The ability to learn new technologies and apply that knowledge quickly

aProven track record demonstrating the ability to meet project milestones and deadlines

BS or MS Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Familiarity with basic synthesizable RTL designs (flops, fifos Clock domain crossing) is a plus.

Strong familiarity with any of these protocols: PCie, Ethernet (100G and above), DDR4.

Ability to create regression scripts to run individual and batch jobs on grid.

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