Physical Design Engineer

Introduction

The physical design team is responsible for designing high-performance microprocessor blocks for IBM Power and z mainframe servers.

Your role and responsibilities

1. Understanding of power delivery networks (PDN) and power integrity concepts
2. Analyzing and IR drop, across the power grid on multi Power domain / Voltage Area
3. EM Analysis and current density check
4. Power rail / PDN analysis, rail current, and checks
5. Developing and implementing techniques to reduce power consumption, such as power gating and voltage islands
6. Perl, Python, TCL : For automation of tasks and analysis
7. Understanding of EM and ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) requirements

Required education
Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education
Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5-8 years industry experience in physical design methodology.
• Good knowledge and hands on experience in physical design methodology which include logic synthesis,placement, clock tree synthesis, routing .
• Should be knowledgeable in physical verification ( LVS,DRC.. etc), Noise analysis, Power analysis and electro migration .Reliability (EM/IR) Verification
  
• Team player with good problem solving skills, communication skills and leadership skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Cadence PD tool& flow usage.
EM/IRconvergence and signoff exposure

Years of Experience:
5-10