Hardware Engineering - Silicon Physical Design Engineer III

Company : eTeam, Inc.

Location : Burlingame, CA

Posted Date : 26 October 2025

Job Type : Other

Category : Information Design & Documentation

Occupation : Design Engineer

Job Details

Role: Hardware Engineering - Silicon Physical Design Engineer III
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 months(Possible for Extension)
Responsibility:
Strong understanding in the RTL2GDSII flow and design tapeouts in 16nm/14nm or below process technologies
• Experience with low power implementation, power gating, multiple voltage rails, strong UPF/CPF knowledge.
• Experience working with most EDA tools like DC/Genus, ICC2/Innovus, Primetime, PTPX, Primepower Duties
• Develop and own physical design implementation of multi-hierarchy low-power designs including physical-aware logic synthesis, design for testability, floorplan, place and route, static timing analysis, IR Drop, EM, and physical verification in advanced technology nodes.
• Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution
• Power analysis based on netlist
Must Have Skills:
Experience in running physical-aware logic synthesis and achieving optimal synthesis QoR on low power designs
Knowledge of static timing analysis and concepts, defining timing constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions and experience in chip power analysis
Experience with custom or regular clock tree synthesis implementation at block level or top level, and clock power reduction techniques and experience with Python, TCL, Perl programming
Nice to Have:
MSEE/CS or equivalent experience
Education:
Must Have: Bachelor degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science • Master's Degree preferred but not required
Interview:
1 Round: Technical with coder pad