Senior Principal Physical Design (CAD) Engineer

Description

Invent the future with us.

Ampere is a semiconductor design company for a new era, leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute.

As a pioneer in the new frontier of energy efficient high-performance computing, Ampere is part of the Softbank Group of companies driving sustainable computing for AI, Cloud, and edge applications.

Join us at Ampere and work alongside a passionate and growing team - we’d love to have you apply!

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Principal Physical Design (CAD) Engineer to join our small but growing Processor Design group, advancing the art of high performance implementation and physical design.

Ideal candidates will develop and maintain physical design flows for high performance designs.

What you’ll achieve:

• Develop and support innovative physical design methodology and custom CAD
• Work closely with implementation and physical design (PD) team
• Debugging flow issues
• Running multiple test designs through flow on latest technologies to determine impact on technology changes to area, power and timing
• Automating new flow practices for general use in the design community

About you:

• Bachelor's degree with 12 years or Master’s degree with 8 years of relevent experience
• Good communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience in physical design CAD flow including synthesis, place & route, and floor planning
• Preferred - power distribution, static timing analysis and physical design verification
• Experience in hierarchical P&R and flow development.
• Experience with all aspects of PD including floorplanning, power-distribution, pad ring construction, placement, CTS, and routing.
• Understand hierarchical P&R issues including top-level floorplanning, pin-assignment, clock-distribution, critical-signal handling, hierarchical abstractions (black-box, ILM, etc.)
• Strong TCL/Perl/Makefile scripting knowledge.
• Experience in developing complex algorithms, managing, and regressing P&R flows.
• Familiar with chip-finishing issues (metal-fill, spare-cells, DFM rules, boundary-cells, etc.) for the latest generations of process technologies. Experience in tool set such as Cadence Genus, Cadence Innovus, Mentor Calibre is a big plus

What we’ll offer:

At Ampere we believe in taking care of our employees and providing a competitive total rewards package that includes base pay, cash long-term incentive, and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits highlights include:

• Premium medical, dental, vision insurance, parental benefits including creche reimbursement, as well as a retirement plan, so that you can feel secure in your health, financial future and child care during work.
• Generous paid time off policy so that you can embrace a healthy work-life balance
• Fully catered lunch in our office along with a variety of healthy snacks, energizing coffee or tea, and refreshing drinks to keep you fueled and focused throughout the day.

And there is much more than compensation and benefits. At Ampere, we foster an inclusive culture that empowers our employees to do more and grow more. We are excited to share more about our career opportunities with you through the interview process.

Ampere is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, age, veteran and/or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.