Director/Sr. Director - Physical Design

Company: Eliyan
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 11, 2025

Job Description:

Join the leading chiplet startup! As an Eliyan Physical Design Director, you will be working at a fast-paced early-stage startup creating technologies that fuel tomorrow's chiplet based systems with best-in-class power, area, manufacturability, and design flexibility. You will drive the development of cutting-edge ASICs from RTL to GDSII. You will work with a cross-functional team of industry experts that operate from first principles, innovate, and push the envelope to create high-volume and high-performance manufacturable products. In this role, you will oversee and optimize the entire design flow, including synthesis, place-and-route (PnR), static timing analysis (STA), electromigration/IR drop analysis (EM/IR), and physical verification (PV). You will also focus on developing and improving design flows and methodologies to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery. We offer a fun work environment with excellent benefits. ONSITE M-FKey Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of physical design engineers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and performance feedback.
• Define and execute the physical design strategy for multiple projects, ensuring alignment with company goals and timelines.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain ASIC design flows for synthesis, PnR, EM/IR analysis, STA, and PV.
• Drive continuous improvements in flow efficiency, automation, and quality metrics to meet power, performance, and area (PPA) targets.
• Own the complete ASIC physical design process, from RTL handoff to GDSII delivery.
• Collaborate with front-end design teams on RTL readiness and design-for-test (DFT) requirements.
• Oversee logic synthesis, ensuring adherence to timing, power, and area constraints.
• Drive floor planning, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, and physical optimization in PnR.
• Manage EM/IR analysis, timing closure through STA, and physical verification, including DRC, LVS, and metal fill.
• Ensure successful tapeout with full sign-off criteria met, including reliability and manufacturability requirements.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including front-end design, DFT, package engineering, and manufacturing.
• Present project updates and status reports to executive leadership.Minimum Qualifications:
  • Expertise in multiple areas of physical design, timing, and signoff.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.Ideal Qualifications:
    • 12+ years of experience in ASIC physical design, with a proven track record of leading teams through successful tapeouts.
    • Deep expertise in the following areas: RTL-to-GDSII flows, synthesis, PnR, STA, EM/IR, and PV, and physical design for advanced process node (5nm and below) across two or more foundries.
    • Strong knowledge of EDA tools (Synopsys or Cadence) and scripting (Python, Perl).
    • Exceptional leadership, project management, and problem-solving skills.
      #J-18808-Ljbffr

Keywords: Eliyan, San Francisco , Director/Sr. Director - Physical Design, Executive , San Francisco, California