ARM Graduate Physical Implementation Applications Engineer 

Taiwan, Taiwan Province, Hsinchu 

489738321

In this role, you will support leading semiconductor design houses in implementing advanced Arm cores/subsystems in their nanometer SoC designs. Meeting best-in-class design performance, power, and area requirements. Working with Arm engineering teams using the latest micro-architectural design techniques, the latest EDA tools/flows, as well as the latest foundry process nodes to build reference implementation methodologies and playing a key role in imparting that knowledge to Arm customers. You will evaluate core/system implementation performance vs. power tradeoffs. Benchmark EDA flows. Supplement EDA tool functionality with custom script workarounds, looking at robust design flows in the face of variability. Study floorplan/power-ground/macro-placement/clock-tree/routability tradeoffs for multi-corner/multi-mode timing closure, and devise physical design flows to extract optimum performance from cell and macro libraries.

• Provide support for all implementation related questions.
• Collaborate with the RTL, implementation and physical library design teams.
• Build App Notes and white-papers.
• Develop and deliver training collateral to our customers.
• Develop, help to promote and deliver physical design support services that help to accelerate customer silicon success.
• Collaborate with EDA vendors to extend the outstanding results for our designs.
• Work with our geographically diverse engineering, field, sales, marketing and support teams to deliver quality support for our customers.

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or other relevant technical fields
• Graduate or < 2 years in physical implementation engineer role
• Knowing about the IC design flow from RTL 2 GDSII.

• Experience with low power design techniques (power gating, DVFS, etc.)
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Perl, Python and TCL
• Processor and interconnect microarchitecture
• DFT and MBIST
• Finfet based cell/macro library usage and implications to SoC design
• Signoff procedures before tape-out

• Opportunity to collaborate with Arm's meaningful customers, as well as internal engineers!