Physical Design (Multiple levels United States of America ASICS Enginee
Job in
San Diego, San Diego County, California, 92189, USA
Listed on 2026-09-12
Listing for:
Qualcomm
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-12
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Hardware Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
San Diego, California, United States of America
* Execute and drive all stages of the physical design flow from synthesized netlist to tape-out.
* Develop and implement physical design solutions for complex, high-speed, and low-power ASICs and SoCs.
* Perform floor planning, partitioning, power planning, and IR-drop analysis.
* Execute placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, timing optimization, and timing closure across Multi-Mode Multi-Corner (MMMC) scenarios.
* Analyze and resolve timing violations, signal integrity issues, crosstalk effects, and physical design rule violations.
* Perform RC extraction, physical verification, and formal verification activities.
* Implement engineering change orders (ECOs) and support design convergence through sign-off.
* Collaborate with architecture, RTL, DFT, verification, and methodology teams to ensure successful project execution.
* Contribute to the development of innovative low-power implementation methodologies and customized place-and-route solutions.
* Develop automation and productivity tools using scripting languages and software development techniques.
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
* ** 2-10+
** years of industry experience or relevant academic/project experience in Physical Design.
* Experience in one or more of the following areas:
* ASIC/SoC Physical Design implementation.
* Place and Route using Cadence Innovus and/or Synopsys Fusion Compiler.
* Static Timing Analysis and timing closure using Synopsys Prime Time SI.
* Physical verification and design sign-off methodologies.
* Formal verification techniques and tools.
* Power domain implementation and low-power design methodologies.
* Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), routing, and timing optimization.
* Low power implementation techniques experience
* Signal integrity, noise analysis, and MMMC sign-off flows.
* DFT-aware physical implementation and constraint management.
* Programming and automation using Python, Perl, TCL, Shell scripting, C/C++, and Linux/Unix environments.
* Perl/Tcl, Python skills are needed.
* Strong problem solving and ASIC development/debugging skills.
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