Hybrid SoC Physical Design Engineer

at Nokia

• Job title: SoC Physical Design Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Perl, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bangalore, India

About the role

• SoC Physical Design Engineer implementing cutting edge ASICs for Network Infrastructure Optical Network group. Focusing on design flows and methodologies optimized for power and performance.

Responsibilities

• Perform physical implementation steps including floor planning, place and route, power/clock distribution, physical verification and timing closure at block level as well as full chip
• Work with logic designers & Hardware team to drive feasibility studies and explore design trade-off for physical design closure
• Perform technical evaluations of IP vendors, process nodes and provide recommendations
• Develop physical design methodologies and automation scripts for various implementation steps from Synthesis to GDSII
• Perform static timing analysis, create timing constraints and validation, critical path analysis, timing closure and timing sign-off

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in ASIC physical design flow and methodologies in 3/5 and 7nm process nodes
• Has solid knowledge of full design cycle from RTL to GDSII and understanding of underlaying concepts of IC design, implementation flows and methodologies for deep submicron design
• Experience with EDA Place & Route tools like Fusion Compiler or Innovus or similar tools and Timing tools like Primetime or similar
• Scripting experience in TCL, python or Perl
• Candidates must have a bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical/Electronics and Communication/VLSI/Microelectronics with very good academics.