Senior EDA Physical Design (PnR) Engineer

Role Summary 

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior EDA Physical Design Engineer with 3 to 8 years of industry experience to develop, deploy, and support advanced physical implementation methodologies for semiconductor designs. 

In this role, you will combine hands-on physical design expertise with EDA methodology development and customer-facing technical support. You will evaluate emerging EDA technologies, develop robust and scalable RTL-to-GDSII implementation flows, and help engineering teams achieve their performance, power, area, runtime, and quality objectives. 

You will work in a collaborative, global environment with product engineering, EDA teams and EDA vendors. The position is suited to an engineer who enjoys solving challenging implementation problems, developing production-quality design flows, and helping engineering teams adopt effective physical design methodologies. 

Key Responsibilities 

Physical Design Implementation and Optimization 

• Perform and support physical implementation activities, including floorplanning, power planning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, post-route optimization, and signoff preparation. 

• Analyze and resolve complex issues related to timing closure, congestion, routing, power integrity, design-rule compliance, and implementation quality. 

• Evaluate quality-of-results trade-offs across timing, power, area, routability, runtime, and design robustness. 

• Support hierarchical and large-scale SoC implementation methodologies. 

• Collaborate with relevant teams to achieve physical signoff readiness. 

Methodology Development and Deployment 

• Develop, validate, document, and deploy robust physical implementation methodologies and production-quality EDA flows. 

• Create reusable flow components, scripts, checks, reporting utilities, and automation infrastructure. 

• Standardize implementation procedures and reports to improve consistency across projects. 

• Validate methodology changes using representative designs, regression testing, and measurable quality-of-results criteria. 

• Support migration and adoption of new implementation platforms, including flow porting, validation, testing, and user onboarding. 

• Apply disciplined software engineering practices, including version control, modular design, testing, release management, and technical documentation. 

• Drive improvements in flow robustness, scalability, usability, runtime, and quality of results. 

New Technology Evaluation and Proof of Concept 

• Research and evaluate new EDA tool functions, implementation technologies, and semiconductor design methodologies. 

• Define technical evaluation criteria and conduct proof-of-concept activities using representative designs. 

• Compare alternative tools and approaches based on quality of results, runtime, scalability, automation, usability, and integration requirements. 

• Identify technical limitations, deployment risks, and methodology improvement opportunities. 

• Document findings and present recommendations to engineering, product, and technical leadership teams. 

• Convert successful evaluations into repeatable, supportable, and production-ready methodologies. 

• Explore AI-assisted EDA capabilities and emerging automation technologies to improve engineering productivity and design outcomes. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Work closely with EDA R&D vendors, product engineering, and design teams to identify requirements and resolve implementation challenges. 

• Provide structured technical feedback to product and R&D teams based on project deployment and customer experience. 

• Collaborate across multiple sites and time zones to share best practices and maintain consistency across projects. 

• Participate in technical reviews, methodology planning, issue prioritization, and continuous-improvement initiatives. 

• Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, results, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

Customer Engagement and Technical Support 

• Provide hands-on technical support to semiconductor customers and internal project teams adopting physical implementation methodologies and EDA flows. 

• Investigate, reproduce, debug, and resolve complex issues related to tools, scripts, constraints, implementation methodologies, and design quality. 

• Guide customers through flow setup, methodology adoption, optimization, and issue resolution. 

• Deliver technical presentations, demonstrations, training materials, and implementation recommendations. 

• Coordinate with product and R&D teams to escalate issues, communicate customer requirements, and track technical resolutions. 

• Build trusted technical relationships through responsiveness, ownership, sound engineering judgment, and clear communication. 

• Help ensure that deployed flows remain robust, scalable, and effective across multiple concurrent projects.