Microsoft Physical Design Engineer 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

27432997

• BS/MS in Electronics or Electrical or Computer Engineering
• Min 5+ years of experience in semiconductor design.
• Great communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Proven track record of implementing designs through synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, extraction, timing, and physical verification.

Preferred:

• Large SoC/CPU/IP design tape-out experience in the latest foundry process nodes.
• Excellent project management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects at once.
• Strong understanding of constraints generation, STA, timing optimization, and timing closure.
• In-depth understanding of design tradeoffs for power, performance, and area.
• Hands on experience with CTS techniques such as Htree, custom clock tree,
• Experience of implementing (VA Planning, secondar PG planning) in multi-voltage, multi-powerdomain, and low power designs.
• Experience and knowledge of formal equivalency checks, LEC, LP, UPF, reliability, SI, and Noise.
• Experience in EDA tools such as Fusion Compiler, Primetime, StarRC, RedHawk, Formality, etc.
• Exposure and some hands-on experience with PD flows bring up/setup/flow flush, overall know how of PD-TFM and PD methodology is a big plus
• Strong problem-solving and data analysis skills
• Automation skills using scripting languages such as Perl, TCL, or Python.

In this role, you will be responsible to:

• Own execution from synthesis to place and route of partition through all signoff including timing signoff, physical verification, EMIR signoff, Formal Equivalence, and Low Power Verification.
• Own partition floorplanning for optimizing blocks for Power, Performance and Area.
• Additionally flow flush PD TFM on few design partitions for early identification of any design PD flow issues before every PD TFM release is proliferated and deployed across all partitions/subchips for PD execution.
• Partner closely with PD flow/CAD team and PD methodology team to flag & fix PD TFM issues upfront and ensure those are fixed in the next PD TFM release from CAD or are updated in the design project layer (as appropriate).
• Have close collaboration with RTL team to help drive and resolve design issues related to block closure.
• Understand tools, flows, and overall design methodology in design construction, signoff, and optimization with a data driven approach.
• Have good scripting skills in one or more scripting languages (viz., Tcl, Perl). Expertise in Python will be a big plus.
• Be a disciplined executor and have keen interest in learning and be forthcoming to deliver to requirements of the program, learn from senior team members.