Apply on Employer Site

Socionext US · 1 day ago

Physical Design Engineer

Milpitas, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$185K/yr - $210K/yr

8+ years exp

Socionext Inc. is an innovative enterprise that designs, develops, and delivers System-on-Chip products to customers worldwide. They are seeking a Physical Design Engineer to work on a variety of challenging designs and ensure successful tape outs by collaborating with customers and design teams.

AutomotiveData CenterSemiconductor

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Jeremy Lewis

Responsibilities

Pre-layout STA to ascertain feasibility, timing constraint validation and feedback to customers and design teams

Chip/Block Level Floorplanning and pin assignment

Review top-level/block-level clock specifications for completeness and feasibility

Handle all the Physical design tasks (Placement, Timing Optimization, Clock Tree Synthesis, Routing)

Perform sign-off tasks (RC Extraction, Static Timing Analysis, IR drop analysis and Physical Verification)

Presentations and Customer Interaction in customer meetings

Qualification

ASIC Physical DesignEDA Tools (ICC2/Innovus)Scripting (Perl/Tcl/Python)Static Timing AnalysisPhysical VerificationProblem-solving skillsInterpersonal skillsCommunication skills

Required

BSEE, with 8+ years of experience or equivalent experience. MSEE preferred

Experience in ASIC Physical Design; Experience in an SoC product development organization with tape outs at 28nm/16nm design nodes and lower

Hands-on Experience with implementation EDA tools like ICC2/Innovus

Scripting (Perl/Tcl/Python) is required

Good understanding of ASIC frontend design

Experience in both Flat and Hierarchical layouts

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze and resolve physical design issues related to library, timing constraints or CAD tools is required

Experience with power analysis and IR-drop tools (prime power/Redhawk) and Static Timing Analysis (Primetime)

Experience with Physical Verification and fix PV errors in layout

Expert handling of Verilog HDL based Netlists, Physical design libraries

Team player with good interpersonal and communication skills; ability to explain processes and answer customer questions during meetings

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, vision insurance

401(k) matching

Company

Socionext US

Socionext Inc.

Founded in 2015

Santa Clara, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://socionextus.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Socionext US has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

Represents job field similar to this job

Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (4)

2024 (2)

2023 (5)

2022 (3)

2021 (2)

2020 (1)