Lead Physical Design Engineer

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October 24

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

Although this job is listed in Pennsylvania, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $200k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍🔧 Mechanical Engineer

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Efficient Computer

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Hardware • Artificial Intelligence • B2B

Efficient Computer is a technology company developing ultra-energy-efficient processors and accompanying toolchains for edge and embedded computing. Their Fabric spatial dataflow processor architecture and E1 processor target extreme low-power applications (wearables, satellites, industrial sensors) while the effcc compiler enables developers to run familiar languages and AI/ML frameworks on the new hardware. The company focuses on delivering high-performance, long-lived battery operation and customers are primarily device makers and industrial/space operators.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🔧 Hardware

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Lead physical design team from synthesis to sign-off and tape-out • Run physical design tasks including synthesis and place-and-route • Work with digital design team to integrate analog and digital IP into design • Interact with design verification team and run verification tasks on design • Resolve DRC & LVS violations to produce DRC-clean GDS-II of chip to deliver to foundry • Interact with foundry partners through multi-party wafer and manufacturing runs • Interact with backend services partners on physical design tasks through sign-off • Implement and execute physical design management process with PD team • Setup and maintain physical design tools, primarily Synopsys, but also potentially including Mentor/Siemens EDA, Cadence, or ANSYS tools as necessary • Run power and energy modeling on synthesized, place-and-routed design • Interact with digital design team to resolve RTL-level issues leading to DRC violations • Mentor and train junior hardware physical design engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Must be an outstanding leader in physical design with substantial experience successfully bringing real chips from design to tape-out. • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 7+ years of industry experience or PhD in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of industry experience. • Experience running physical design tasks using Synopsys and/or Cadence EDA tools. • Experience interacting with chip foundry services companies. • Experience integrating analog and digital IP into prior tape-outs • Experience with post-silicon bring-up and working with post-silicon validation team • Experience with performing verification and interacting with verification and design teams • Experience with power and energy modeling • Experience with continuous integration and testing • Strong attention to detail, good work ethic, ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, and good communication skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401K match • company-paid benefits • equity program • paid parental leave • flexibility