Physical Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop, build and own tools, flows and methodologies for physical implementation
• Own physical implementation of floorplan blocks from floorplanning to final signoff
• Collaborate with RTL designers to drive optimal block implementation solutions
• Analyze and optimize design for timing, power, and area trade-offs in collaboration with EDA vendors and ASIC partners

Requirements

• BS with 4+ years, MS with 2+ years, or PhD with 0-1 years of relevant industry experience in physical design and methodology development
• Demonstrated success in taping out complex silicon designs
• Hands-on experience with block physical implementation and PPA convergence
• Strong coding experience with Python, Bazel, and TCL
• Strong experience building physical design tools, flows and methodologies
• Strong understanding of microarchitecture, RTL design, physical design, circuit design, physical verification and timing closure
• Deep familiarity with industry-standard tools and flows for physical synthesis, PNR, LEC and power estimation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI or HPC-focused chips
• Experience with optimizing PPA for high performance compute cores
• Hands-on experience with top-level design methodologies

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.