Senior / Staff / Principal Physical Implementation Engineer

Senior / Staff / Principal Physical Implementation Engineer – CPU

Salary: Up to £130,000 + Bonus + Shares

Location: Cambridge

Working Environment: Hybrid (2 days on-site)

The company is one of the most prestigious tech firms in the world and a global powerhouse in the semiconductor industry, operating at the bleeding edge of technology and redefining the way we interact with our devices through the creation of advances semiconductor and software designs.

Following continued growth, the business has multiple openings for Senior, Staff and Principal level Physical Implementation Engineers within its CPU Group.

As a Physical Implementation Engineer, you will contribute across the entire implementation flow; from RTL synthesis, through place and route, to STA, and work in close collaboration with the RTL design teams, granting you the opportunity to improve your knowledge of CPU microarchitecture. You will be working on live projects, including driving EDA vendors on advanced process nodes (eg. 3nm FinFET), whilst pushing the boundaries of power efficiency and influencing physical library development.

Key Requirements:

• Proficient with Verilog or System Verilog.
• Experience in the synthesis of RTL designs and/or place & route.

Desired, but not essential:

• Experience in LEC (Logic equivalence checks) and/or STA (Static timing analysis).
• Experience with low power design techniques (power gating, DVFS…etc).
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as TCL and/or Python.
• A deep understanding of the challenges faced at the nanometre-scale.

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