Physical Design Engineer

Introduction
As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you’ll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today’s market.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Perform Sub system level floor planning, placement, and routing for high-performance microprocessor design. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve design goals.
• Close the design to meet timing, power, and area requirements.
• Implement engineering change orders (ECOs) to rectify functional bugs and timing issues.
• Ensure the quality and efficiency of the RTL to GDS2 implementation process.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 8+ years of industry experience
• Good knowledge and hands on experience in physical design , timing and methodology which include logic synthesis, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing , post route closure.
• Should be knowledgeable in physical verification ( LVS,DRC.. etc) ,Noise analysis, Power analysis and electro migration .
• Good knowledge and hands on experience in static timing analysis (closing timing at chip level)
• good understanding of timing constraints .
• Should have experience in handling asynchronous timing, multiple corner timing closure.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Automation skills in PERL ,SKILL and/or TCL