Senior Physical Designer

Our Mission

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Disclosure

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Job Title: Senior Physical Designer

Department: BCI

Job Reports To: Head of BCI

Location: Salt Lake City or Remote

Position Overview

The Physical Designer engineer will work on novel state of the art BCI systems featuring custom ASICs. The Physical Designer engineer will support the design of the ASIC and will collaborate with the ASIC AMS designers/manufacturing teams/ and system level engineers during R&D to ensure successful tapeouts.

Qualification Requirements

• PhD in electrical engineering or computer engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in physical design and ASIC design.
  
  

IDEAL COMPETENCIES

• Siemens/Synopsys/Cadence tools.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Strong scripting skill with languages like TCL, Perl, or Python for automation tasks.
• Knowledge in ASIC design flow from spec to test and validation.
• Knowledge in complex SoC and active interposer assembly.
• Knowledge in medical devices.
  
  

Essential Job Duties

• The Physical Design Engineer is responsible for integrating analog and mixed signal IPs, as well as high-speed interfaces, into subsystems or AMS components. They collaborate with package and platform teams to ensure seamless AMS integration.
• They support pathfinding studies during silicon development and provide feedback to the silicon and packaging teams regarding AMS integration and tradeoffs. The engineer guides the integration process from specification documentation to silicon tapeout and offers debugging support for analog functionality-related issues in the product.
• Their expertise lies in PnR and design verification flows, understanding packaging effects, and managing integration challenges in AMS designs to achieve optimal overall circuit performance.
• They closely collaborate with analog IP, SoC architecture, SoC design, package, and platform design functions to meet the analog specification requirements for the product.
  
  

Physical And Other Requirements

• Ability to work in an office setting.
• Sitting and standing while typing.