Principal Product Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Expertise (Place & Route / Signoff)

• Provide place-and-route expertise to customers and internal teams.
• Work on RTL-to-GDSII flow and understand complete chip implementation flow.
• Evaluate impact of new features on performance, power, and area (PPA).

PPA Benchmarking & Optimization

• Perform PPA benchmarking using customer and foundry test cases.
• Identify PPA bottlenecks and propose optimization opportunities.
• Analyze timing and power to improve design efficiency.

Customer & R&D Collaboration

• Act as liaison between customers/foundries and R&D teams.
• Translate customer requirements into technical enhancements.
• Support feature development and validation cycles.

Scripting & Data Analysis

• Develop point solutions using scripting languages.
• Perform data mining and analysis to extract optimization insights.

Technology Understanding

• Strong understanding of PDKs and design kits (DK collaterals).
• Deep knowledge of timing analysis, power analysis, and physical design flow