Physical Design Engineer

About This Role

• Join Intel as a Physical Design Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of custom IP and SoC designs.
• In this position, you will be instrumental in transforming designs from RTL to GDS, creating manufacturing-ready databases that enable groundbreaking innovations.
• Your expertise in physical design and verification will directly impact our ability to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient, and scalable silicon solutions for a wide range of applications.
• By contributing to the optimization of power, frequency, and area, you will help ensure our technology remains at the forefront of the semiconductor industry.
• Key Responsibilities : Perform end-to-end physical design implementation of custom IP and SoC designs, from RTL to GDS.
• Conduct floor planning, power and clock distribution, and clock tree synthesis to optimize design performance and efficiency.
• Execute place and route tasks, ensuring accurate pin and macro placement and robust layout cleanup.
• Drive static timing analysis, power noise analysis, and reliability verification to achieve timing closure and design integrity.
• Lead design verification and signoff processes, including formal equivalence verification, layout verification, and electrical rule checking.
• Utilize industry-standard EDA tools to conduct multi-power domain analysis, DFT implementation, and low-power design methodologies.
• Analyze verification results, resolving violations, and providing recommendations for current and future product architectures.
• Continuously improve physical design methodologies and flow automation to enhance productivity and quality.