Job Description:
Broadcom is looking for a staff level physical design engineer. In this highly visible role, you will be contributing to ASIC for Storage/ AI products.
Qualifications:
- Education and Experience: Master's degree in Electronics/Computer Engineering with over 10 years of experience in physical design.
- Physical Design Expertise: Extensive experience in Place & Route using Synopsys FC or Cadence Innovus tools is essential. Proficiency in STA using Primetime and/or Tempus. Demonstrated knowledge of Clock Tree Implementation Techniques for High-Speed Design Implementation.
- Ability to drive front-end and back-end implementation from RTL to GDSII, including synthesis, formal verification, floorplanning, timing constraints, timing and power convergence, and ECO implementation.
- Experience driving physical design and timing convergence of ASICs at both block and full-chip levels.
- Proficient in constraint generation and validation.
- Formal verification experience (Formality/Conformal).
- Strong problem-solving and ASIC development/debugging skills.
- Experience with low-power implementation techniques.
- Solid understanding of physical design verification methodology for debugging LVS/DRC issues at the chip and block level.
Tools and Scripting:
- Good Understanding of Synopsys / Cadence tools.
- Familiarity with Calibre, IC Validator, and Redhawk (power analysis) tools.
- Scripting experience with Perl, Python, Tcl, and shell, with a drive to automate flows.
Highly Desired Qualities:
- Proactive, collaborative, and creative approach to innovation, technical development, and consensus facilitation to influence optimal project results.
- Excellent time and task management, and interpersonal skills.