Staff Silicon Physical Design Engineer - Bengaluru

Overview

Contribute technically to Graphcore's next generation of AI superchips within the physical design team, delivering robust, high-performance, power-efficient designs in leading-edge process technologies to ambitious schedules.

What you'll do

• Use state-of-the-art EDA tools and in-house Graphcore flows to deliver final designs of sign-off quality.
• Enhance existing flows and in-house tools/APIs to support new features and/or methodologies.
• Analyse and/or debug complex engineering problems leading to workable solutions.
• Develop an understanding of emerging technical issues and apply that knowledge to optimise in-house flows and methodologies.
• Work closely with other Graphcore teams and with 3rd party support engineers/contractors, ensuring good communication between all parties.

What you'll need

• A degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related subject, with 3+ years of industry experience.
• Highly motivated, a self-starter and a team player.
• Excellent problem-solving skills for debugging issues seen and finding root causes.
• Ability to program/script, typically in Tcl and Python, to solve design issues.
• Experience in 7nm or smaller technologies.
• A good breadth of experience with physical design flows including floorplanning/budgeting, synthesis, place and route, clock CTS, logical equivalence, timing analysis, and physical verification (DRC/LVS/ERC).

Nice to have

• In-depth expertise in one or more aspects of physical design flows.
• Structuring of builds to maximise PPA.
• Silicon transistor knowledge including std cell libraries and/or memories.
• 5D and 3D design (CoWoS, UCIe etc.).
• High speed, high power and/or full reticle chip design.
• Ethernet, PCIe, LPDDR, HBM interfaces.
• Power integrity and optimization.
• 2nm or 3nm technologies.
• Chip finishing (pad rings, chip level LVS/DRC/ERC).
• Design for test.
• Team management.
• Project planning.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India (new AI Engineering Campus).