Senior Physical Design Engineer

Headhunter: Intellectual Capital Resources

Semiconductor Production

8040 Zürich, Zurich - Schweiz

Senior Specialist / Project Manager

Experteer Overview

Zurich, Switzerland Small, collaborative team with clear ownershipJob ID: 369219 Our client, a cutting-edge semiconductor company working on next-generation compute architectures, is looking for a Senior Physical Design Engineer to take ownership across complex IP and SoC designs. This is a key technical role focused on high-quality implementation, collaboration, and delivering robust silicon on advanced process nodes.As a Senior Physical Design Engineer, you’ll be responsible for driving Static Timing Analysis, timing ECOs, power-grid planning, IR-drop analysis, and correlation acro

Responsibilities

Drive Static Timing Analysis (STA) and timing ECOs across designs
Plan and manage power-grid design and IR-drop analysis
Ensure correlation between synthesis, place-and-route, and sign-off
Take ownership across complex IP and SoC implementations on advanced nodes
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust silicon
Automate flows and report generation using scripting

Key requirements

Strong expertise in either timing closure or power/IR-drop sign-off
2+ successful tapeouts
Solid understanding of STA, multi-clock designs, and hierarchical timing closure
Hands-on experience with synthesis and P&R on advanced nodes
Experience in power-grid design and IR-drop analysis
Proficiency in Tcl and Python for flow automation

collaboration communication problem-solving Static Timing Analysis (STA)timing closure power/IR-drop sign-off

Description

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