Senior Physical Design Engineer

freeC's Client

As a Senior Physical Design Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in managing technology within projects and providing expert technical guidance and solutions. Your responsibilities include:

• Leading the execution of physical design projects, ensuring timely completion with superior quality.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to team members to enhance their capabilities and productivity.
• Ensuring process compliance within assigned modules and actively participating in technical discussions and reviews.
• Developing and submitting status reports to minimize project risks and escalate issues for timely resolution.

Required Skills and Experiences:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in executing physical design projects.
• Intermediate English with the ability to communicate at basic level.
• Demonstrated ability to lead small to medium-sized teams effectively.
• Proficiency in the entire Physical Design flow from RTL to GDSII.
• Strong understanding and expertise in areas such as Floor planning, Power Planning, Placement, CTS, Routing, Design Convergence, and Sign-off.
• Hands-on experience with OCV, MM/MC optimization, and multi-power designs.
• Familiarity with static timing analysis fixes and automated ECO generation.
• Expertise in CTS and skew fixing.
• Experience in library preparation using tools like Synopsys or Cadence.
• Knowledge of physical verification tasks at lower nodes, including DRC, LVS, ERC, PERC, Antenna, ESD, and LUP analysis and fixing.
• Ability to take ownership of projects from netlist/RTL to GDS for blocks at the block level or full chip level.
• Exposure to IP Hardening for blocks such as SERDES, USB PHY, MIPI, SATA is advantageous.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Perl, TCL is a plus.
• Strong project management skills, including milestone definition, risk identification, and mitigation planning.

Preferred Skills and Experiences:

• Self-driven attitude with confidence in reporting status and communicating technical results to customers.
• Ability to present effectively to senior management and work in a globally distributed team, understanding cross-cultural nuances.

• 18 paid leaves per year (including 12 annual leaves + 6 personal leaves).
• Insurance plan based on full salary + 13th salary + Performance Bonus (quarterly).
• 100% full salary in probation period.
• Medical Benefit (Personal) and Family based on levels.
• Working in a fast-paced, flexible, and multinational working environment. Chance to travel onsite (in 49 countries).
• Internal Training (Technical & Functional). Scope of English Training.