Lead Solutions Engineer - Physical Design

Job Overview

We are seeking a Lead Solutions Engineer to support and drive the adoption of Cadence's digital implementation, physical design, and static verification solutions across key customers in the region.

In this role, you will combine deep hands-on physical design expertise with technical leadership and customer engagement, helping customers achieve optimal performance, power, and area (PPA) on advanced technology nodes. You will work closely with customer design teams, Cadence R&D, Product Engineering influencing methodologies and ensuring successful project execution and tool adoption.

• The candidate will perform the physical design implementation, including floor planning, power grid design, place and route, clock tree synthesis, timing closure, power/signal integrity signoff, physical verification (DRC/LVS/Antenna), EM/IR signoff, DFM Closure.

• The candidate will have the opportunity to work on many varieties of challenging designs, i.e. low power and high speed designs at the latest technology nodes.

• The responsibility of the candidate includes participating in or leading next generation physical design, methodology and flow development.

• The candidate will work closely with RTL design team to ensure successful tapeouts.

Requirement:

• BS/MS in EE/CS with 3+ years of hands-on experience in physical design and verification.

• Experienced with ASIC design flow, hierarchical physical design strategies, methodologies, and understand deep sub-micron technology issues.

• Solid knowledge on Low Power Design, DFT, static timing analysis and closure, data skew balancing, duty cycle adjustment, EM/IR-Drop/crosstalk analysis, formal verification, physical verification, DFM and P&R.

• Able to assume responsibility for a variety of technical tasks and to work independently

• Able to be hands-on at all levels of design, with the ability to verify, test, and characterize own designs

• Self-motivated, able to work as a team player, and good English communication skills