VLSI Back-End Engineer

For an exciting well-funded start-up, we are looking for a Backend Team member.

You will work on complex design, high frequency and low-power budget. Work on ramp-up full RTL2GDSII flow for leading technology and work with external vendors.

Key responsibilities:

• RTL-to-GDSII Ownership: execute the complete backend implementation flow (Logic Synthesis, P&R, Tape-Out, IR-drop, etc.), ensuring timely, first-pass silicon success.

·               Constraints & Timing Closure: Work with design and DFT engineers to write timing and physical constraints, and sign-off on the design using comprehensive Static

Timing Analysis (STA), timing eco implementation.

·               Advanced Physical Implementation: Drive complex physical design tasks including Floorplanning, Power/Ground (PG) Mesh implementation, and handling advanced

clocking (CTS/Clock-Mesh) and Hierarchical Design flows.

·               Low Power Expertise: Define, implement, and verify advanced low power design techniques to meet aggressive power consumption targets.

·               Design for Manufacturability: Implement and verify Design-for-Test (DFT) strategies and close physical verification challenges, specifically focusing on IR-Drop

analysis.

·               IP Integration & Automation: Execute complex IP integration, incorporating blocks generated by memory compilers and other automated tools.

• Collaboration: work closely with design team to understand the data path and correctly implement the floorplan, provide feedback on RTL changes required, Implement logical eco post RTL freeze with design team.
• CAD: Improve existing implementation flows to achieve better QOR, write scripts for supporting the P&R flows.

Minimum Qualifications 

·         Experience of 5+ years in backend design

·         Strong expertise of full RTL2GDSII including:

·         Logic synthesis & equivalence checking

·         Constraints definition and writing

·         Complicated IP integration

·         Memory compilers and other automated block generators

·         DFT

·         Floorplanning, PG Mesh

·         P&R

·         Low power design including definition, implementation and verification

·         Timing STA

·         IR-Drop

·         BS/MS in EE/CE from lead universities     

Preferred Qualifications

·         Team player

·         Highly motivated

·         Learning abilities

·         Good communication

·         Work with external vendors

·         Experience in Synopsys/Cadence tools is an advantage

·         Low power techniques

·         Clock-mesh/ multi source cts

·         Hierarchical design flow

·         Experience in tape-out procedures

·         RTL code reading