lightmatter
Sr. Staff Physical Design Engineer
At a Glance
- Location
- Mountain View, California, United States
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Posted
- 2026-05-11T10:38:04-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
- Insurance
- Medical
Requirements
At least 8+ years of industry experience working as a Physical Design Engineer
Must have completed blocks or top level physical design for large ASICs or mixed signal chips that taped out
Thorough knowledge of timing closure, LVS/DRC closure
Experience in TCL and Python (or other scripting languages)
Hands-on experience with Cadence tools
Tape-out experience 3nm designs
Responsibilities
Implement digital blocks in advanced tech nodes from synthesis through physical verification, using industry standard tools and flows
Understand and debug timing constraints, derates and margins.
Review signoff STA reports and fix timing violations for all timing scenarios
Build and customize power grid and ensure power integrity goals are met
Understand clock details and be able to customize clock implementation for functional and test clocks
Debug and clean up DRC/LVS