Sr. Manager Physical Design CAD Methodology - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

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THE ROLE: 

AMD seeks a passionate, collaborative leader with strong technical skills and the initiative to motivate a strong technical team. You will manage a Physical Design CAD/Methodology team to develop and maintain world-class Physical Implementation flows and methodologies.  You will collaborate with our internal experts and EDA vendors to plan and drive continuous methodologies improvements, collecting best practices and integrate them into a software designed flow for consistency, efficiency, and ease-of-use.  You will manage your team to provide tools/flows support to the global IP & SoC design teams and work with EDA vendors to resolve tools issues.

THE PERSON: 

We’re looking for a strong leader with excellent communication skills, technically strong in all aspects of Physical Design, including Synthesis, PnR, CTS & Custom clocktree implementation, LEC, functional ECO, Static timing analysis, EMIR and chip finishing to lead our Physical Implementation CAD/Methodology team.  A candidate with experience leading the IP/SoC Physical Design team with multiple successful tape-outs in modern process nodes (7nm, 5nm, 3nm) using state-of-the-art EDA tools from Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, etc. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Lead a high-performance Physical Design CAD/Methodology team to develop and maintain world-class Physical Implementation flows from RTL2GDS, including Synthesis, PnR, CTS/Custom clocktree, LEC and ECO.
• Collaborate with chip design teams to implement the flows and methodologies to improve Performance, Power and Area (PPA), and Turn-Around-Time (TAT).
• Review and drive technical evaluations of EDA tools and provide recommendation. 
• Manage the team in providing tools/flows support to the global design teams.
• Work with EDA vendors to resolve tool issues and bugs.
• Motivate and nurture talent.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Strong  industrial experience in VLSI design.
• Strong technical manager  experience managing Physical Design team at IP/SoC level with multiple successful tapeouts in advance technodes (10nm and below).
• In-depth knowledge in all aspects of Physical Design, including Synthesis, PnR, CTS & Custom clocktree implementation, LEC, functional ECO, Static timing analysis, EMIR and chip finishing.
• Experience with driving EDA vendors to make tool improvements or new functions to meet advanced or unique design requirements.
• Working knowledge in high-performance design flows using industry-standard EDA tools like Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, etc.
• Solid background in VLSI and CMOS fundamentals
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills.

PREFERRED ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering.
  

LOCATION:  Markham, ON   (open to Austin, TX)

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