Sr. Staff Engineer, Physical Verification

Location

Penang, Malaysia

Position Type

Full Time

Immigrant Status

Citizen / PR (should not require any immigration services)

Travel Required

Occasional

About Us

At RapidSilicon, we focus on bringing creativity to FPGA design by combining open-source FPGA methodology with proprietary technologies that enable a faster design-to-silicon turnaround. Our employees work on innovative AI-enhanced EDA tools to provide the most optimized design result that satisfies the needs in general-purpose or domain-specific applications.

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Job Description

You will be directly involved in hardening of the SOC partitions that will be integrated with Rapid Silicon’s next-generation FPGA products. You will have the opportunity to work on partitions like RISC-V, ARM, Memory subsystem, PCIE subsystem, etc.
Key Responsibilities for this position include but not limited to:
  • Take the leadership role of developing and supporting block and full chip automated physical verification flows and scripts
  • Perform block and full-chip physical verification and work with the physical design team to close design issues
  • Work with the PD team to clean up all DRC/LVS/ESD/ERC/ANT violations and sign off PV for tapeouts
  • Work closely with semiconductor foundries on installation, and maintenance of process design kits (PDKs) for SOC physical design teams
  • Design custom circuits for some analog and/or high-speed circuits

Minimum Qualifications

  • Master with at least 6 years or Bachelor with at least 8 years design experience in the structural/physical design domain
  • Have multiple tape-out experience in deep submicron, preferably experience in 14nm and below
  • Experience working with block or full chip physical verification and/or owning Physical Verification CAD flow development and support
  • Experience in relevant VLSI structural/physical design methodology, flows and relevant EDA tools will be an advantage

Preferred Skills

  • Previous experience as a key technical leading role in development and delivery of leading edge physical databases for ASICs, SoCs or IPs will be an advantage
  • Experienced in industry RTL to GDSII tools: Design Compiler, IC Compiler II, Fusion Compiler, PrimeTime, etc
  • Hands-on expertise with scripting languages such as Perl, TCL, and knowledge of hardware description languages of VHDL & Verilog.
  • Possess strong initiative, analytical/problem solving skills, team working skills, ability to multitask and be able to work within a diverse team environment.

Deadline to Apply

Rolling
Drop us an email, with attached resume, to careers@rapidsilicon.com
*We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status