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The Senior Physical Design Engineer joins the Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering team to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure. This role involves leading and executing physical design activities at both block and sub-chip levels while contributing to flow development, automation, and methodology improvements. The engineer will evaluate technology nodes, IP selection, EDA tools, and vendor solutions while providing status updates on progress and risks. Day-to-day tasks include performing floorplanning, synthesis, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, static timing analysis, physical verification, formal equivalency, power optimization, and IR-drop and electromigration analysis. The position focuses on the technical challenges of delivering high-volume, high-quality hardware for cloud infrastructure. Required expertise includes experience in complex ASIC tapeouts at leading-edge technology nodes to ensure efficient performance within the cloud hardware ecosystem.
Lead and execute Physical Design activities at both block and sub-chip levels.
Develop and improve Physical Design flows, automation, and methodologies.
Evaluate and recommend technology nodes, IP selections, EDA tools, and vendor solutions.
Perform floorplanning, synthesis, placement, and routing for chip designs.
Execute Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS) and perform Static Timing Analysis (STA).
Conduct physical verification, power optimization, and efficiency analysis.
Analyze IR-drop and Electromigration (EM) to ensure hardware reliability.
Provide status updates on project progress, risks, and mitigation plans to management.
What we're looking for
A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of technical engineering experience is required.
A Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience is required.
A Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of technical engineering experience is required.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check and meet government security screening requirements.
Ability to access information controlled under export control regulations including ITAR, EAR, and EU Dual Use Regulations.
Proof of citizenship, residency, or other protected status for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information.
Experience in physical design implementation and signoff at block/sub-system level (preferred).
Experience in tapeouts of complex ASICs in leading edge technology (preferred).