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Cisco Physical Design Engineer 
Armenia, Yerevan 
4508774

09.07.2025
What You'll Do
  • You will be responsible for macro level RTL to gds implementation and signoff.
  • Work with Front-End teams to understand the design architecture to ensure optimal physical implementation.
  • Execute physical design tasks, including gate-level netlist synthesis, floorplanning, placement, Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), and routing.
  • Optimize designs to achieve industry-leading power, performance, and area (PPA) metrics while maintaining design integrity through formal verification.
  • Conduct Static Timing Analysis (STA), physical verification, formal verification and signoff closure to ensure high-quality results.
  • Analyze and resolve Electromigration (EM) and IR-drop (IR) issues, meeting stringent signoff requirements for reliability and performance.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • 4+ year minimum of hands-on experience in ASIC design and verification
  • Proven expertise in ASIC physical design and verification.
  • Knowledge of block-level synthesis, place-and-route (PnR), and timing closure.
  • First-hand experience with industry-standard PnR and signoff tools such as Synopsys and Cadence.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Understanding of all aspects of physical design construction, integration, and methodologies.
  • Proficiency in Physical Design Verification, including techniques like LVS and DRC.
  • Experience with physical design EDA tools and workflows.
  • Expertise in Static Timing Analysis (STA), timing closure, and design constraints.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages like Tcl, Python, or Perl, with a focus on automation and efficiency improvements.