Etched
Physical Design Engineer
Austin · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 97 days ago
PythonMachine LearningNLPLLMsCadenceResearch
About the role
- Etched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team. In this role, you
- will own block-level implementation and verification, drive timing closure and PPA optimization, supervise 3rd party design work, and help improve our design flows and iteration speed.
- Etched is looking for exceptional Physical Design engineers to join our team.
Responsibilities
- Deeply understand what is involved in physical design
- Running PD flows to close blocks, support ASIC infrastructure, automate PD flows,
- Collaborate with RTL Designers and provide Physical Design feedback to improve PPA
- Drive dashboards that show the convergence of projects related to PD
- Optimize tool flows, working with EDA vendors to incorporate the latest features
- Supervise the outsourcing of physical design to a 3rd party service
- Tools, flow, and design methodology from RTL synthesis to GDSII sign-off
Requirements
- 5-10+ years of previous experience with PD
- Experience with back-end design and timing closure on advanced process nodes (5nm
- Experience with Cadence (Innovus, Genus) or Synopsys (ICC2, Fusion Compiler)
- Experience with sign-off tools (PrimeTime, Tempus, Voltus, etc.)
- Experience with UPF-based low power design methodology, power verification,synthesis, scan insertion/ATPG, formal verification, floorplanning, placement, CTS,
- Familiarity with modern ML and LLM model architectures
- Ability to program with Python or another scripting language
- Familiarity with AI tools for programming/coding
- You may be a good fit if you have
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
Company info
- We are the first inference-focused frontier AI system, betting early on transformer and transformer-like architectures and on increasing model sizes.
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