Senior Physical Design Engineer; remote at Chelsea Search Group Richardson, TX

Senior Physical Design Engineer

Remote location possible. Richardson, TX (onsite/hybrid) or remote.

Contract (6+ months with possible extensions).

US Citizen or US Permanent Resident required.

• Architect system requirements
• Collaborate effectively with the full ASIC design implementation team with a humble, hungry and smart attitude
• Leverage or enhance existing digital design flow and solve design and flow issues within Cadence Genus, Innovus, Tempus
• Plan budget, tools and team effort and champion project needs to ensure milestones and objectives are met
• Super user of industry standard Physical Design, Synthesis and Timing Analysis tools
• Accountable for physical design implementation of complex, low‑power designs including physically aware logic synthesis, DFT, floorplan, place and route, static timing analysis, IR Drop, EM, and physical verification

• BSEE/MSEE with 5+ years of related industry experience
• 5+ years hands‑on experience in high reliability, low power VLSI designs
• 5+ years of experience with Cadence digital design tools (Genus, Innovus, Tempus)
• Basic proficiency with programming languages such as Perl, C and TCL
• Excellent understanding of reliability, test and power concepts & design tradeoffs required
• ITAR compliance approval required
• Knowledge of MIPI, I2S, CAN protocols a plus
• Skilled with Verilog/VHDL RTL and able to modify for timing or power closure
• Production‑proven experience with floor planning at chip level with Bus/Pin variables, synthesis, place and route optimization, parasitic extraction, static timing analysis, low power intent (UPF/CPF), power analysis, IR drop analysis, electromigration, physical verification and sign off