Physical Design Engineer ; Co-op

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Cisco is well known for developing ground-breaking products in short time intervals. To support new product development at an exciting pace the Acacia PD team is challenged to design, develop, and build ASIC designs. The work is essential for supporting the increasing demands of hybrid work environments and ensuring reliable, high-capacity network connections. The engineers work with technologies that involve the latest submicron technologies.

An ASIC PD engineer would be involved in developing and optimizing physical floorplan and their implementation.

You'll perform one or more of the following tasks while working on Cisco's elite optical communication products. You'll be assigned relevant work assignments to challenge you according to your current level of experience and capability. You may find yourself working in the following areas:

• Work with Front-End teams to understand the design architecture to ensure optimal physical implementation
• Gate level netlist synthesis (physical synthesis)
• Physical implementation (floor planning, placement, CTS, routing)
• Power, performance and area optimization of design
• Static Timing analysis and signoff closure
• Physical verification and signoff closure
• EMIR analysis and signoff closure

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program (Associate's or Bachelor's)

-Qualifying education should be in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related program

-Expected to continue enrollment in degree program following completion of the internship.

• Knowledge of the design cycle from RTL to GDSII
• Understanding of Static Timing Analysis, timing closure and design constraints
• Knowledge in block level synthesis, place and route, timing closure, PnR and signoff tools and their capabilities

• Interest in VLSI design, and more specifically in ASIC physical design and verification
• Interest and preferably academic experience in deep submicron CMOS technologies
• Scripting experience with perl, tcl, python and/or shell, a plus
• Analytical and creative, with well-developed and tenacious problem-solving skills
• Previous internship experience

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Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered…