Senior Physical Design Engineer (contract, hybrid) - Chelsea Search Group, Inc.

Senior Physical Design Engineer

Start Date: by November 4
Work Status: US Citizen only
Hourly Rate: $80-$90 on 1099 or C2C
Hybrid: onsite/work from home
Contract Duration: 6-12 months with possible extensions

The ideal candidates should be highly proficient in using all the Synopsys EDA tools/flows with little to no ramp-up time needed to make an immediate impact. You will be responsible for doing all aspects of SOC Physical Design implementation.

Required Qualifications:

1. Experience: 10+ years
2. Synopsys Fusion Compiler/ICC2 (Synthesis, DFT insertion, Place & Route, Chip Finishing, PT-SI STA, Timing Closure, PV (DRC/ERC/PERC/LVS)
3. Synopsys DC, DCG, DC TOPO
4. Synopsys Flow Development & SOC implementation methodologies that will be deployed and used by customer’s Physical Design Implementation team members
5. Familiar with Synopsys Lynx a plus
6. RTL Hand-over experience a plus for RTL to GDS
7. Experience with top-level floorplanning, bump-maps, RDL IO Pad/Ring creation/verification, power grid creation/verification, hierarchal floorplanning/partitioning
8. Solid experience with full SOC clocking methodologies (H-Tree, Structure Clocking, MS CTS for Top/Blocks with push/down & bottoms up approaches)
9. Highly proficient with SDC STA constraints development driving back-end tools for blocks and full-chip through timing closure & sign-off
10. Ability to define sign-off requirements/margins based on Foundry technology requirements a plus
11. DFT experience with compression, scan, TDF, and MEMBIST a plus
12. Synopsys Formality for formal verification (RTL to Gate, Gate-to-Gate) & Formality ECO flows
13. Familiar with UPF flows & methodologies for multi-voltage power domains with turn on/turn off using UPF
14. Synopsys ICV for PV (Physical Verification – DRC/ERC/LVS/PERC)
15. Ansys Redhawk SC (For IR analysis for static, dynamic, & EMIR)
16. Experience in PD implementation/design closure on complex IP Sub-Systems such as PCIe, USB, MIPI, DDR, & HBM a plus
17. Experience with GlobalFoundries, TSMC, & Samsung technology nodes are a plus
18. Consultants should have a solid track record on execution delivering to high-quality standards for delivering to high quality tape-out