Alphawave IP, Inc.

Principal Engineer - Physical Design

Posted 7 Days Ago

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Bangalore, Bengaluru, Karnataka

5-7 Years Experience

Semiconductor

The Role

The Principal Engineer in Physical Design will manage ASIC development processes, perform physical design and verification tasks, mentor junior team members, and ensure high-speed design implementation. The role involves hands-on tasks like floor-planning, timing closure, and running verification scripts.

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The Opportunity

We're looking for the Wavemakers of tomorrow.

Alphawave Semi enables tomorrow’s future by accelerating the critical data communication at the heart of our digital world – from seamless video streaming to AI to the metaverse and much more. Our technology powers product innovation in the most data-demanding industries today, including data centers, networking, storage, artificial intelligence, 5G wireless infrastructure, and autonomous vehicles. Customers partner with us for mission-critical data communication, our innovative technologies, and our proven track record. Together, we enable the next generation of digital technology.

What You'll Do:

Perform hands-on physical design and physical verification tasks across projects in advanced process nodes.
Manage project-specific ASIC development flow setup and maintenance.
Physical design tasks include floor-planning, place and route, CTS, timing closure, IR/EM analysis, and LEC for block level and full chip flat/hierarchical designs. Coordinate full chip physical design and verification activities.
Physical verification tasks include creating setup and scripts for DRC, LVS, DFM, Antenna and density checks, report generation, analysis, debugging, and implementing fixes in the physical design database.
Preferred work experience in High-speed designs 2.5Ghz+
You will be reporting to Senior Director - ASIC Design
Mentor junior PD/PV team members and oversee their tasks.

What You'll Need:

Minimum 15+ Years of experience in ASIC/ SoC Physical Design.
Skills – have working experience in advanced FinFET node designs.
Experience with Cadence/Synopsys PnR/STA tools and Calibre; good scripting/automation skills is a must.
Education – B. Tech /M. Tech in Electronics Engineering.

Diversity & Inclusivity

Alphawave Semi is based out of one of the most diverse countries in the world. This includes differences related to race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender expression and presentation, sexual orientation, religion, age, ability and socioeconomic status. To us, diversity is one our strongest assets to our organization. We commit ourselves to promoting the recognition and appreciation of our diverse and rich culture. We believe that it is critical to our success to promote freedom of thought and opinion in a respectful environment. The decisions we make are rooted by respectfully considering each other’s thoughts and opinions and by working towards a greater common goal.

Accommodation

Alphawave Semi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals, including visible minorities, Indigenous People, and persons with disabilities. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. If as a qualified job applicant, you request accommodation, Alphawave Semi will consult with you to provide reasonable accommodations according to your specific needs. If you wish to make a request, you will be provided an opportunity if you’re applications is selected to proceed in our hiring process.