What You ll Be Doing:
- Designing and validating custom standard cells, including flip flops, clock gating cells, level shifters, and power gating cells.
- Optimizing standard cell circuits to achieve better performance, power, and area (PPA).
- Engaging in hands-on development while mentoring and coaching junior R&D engineers.
- Collaborating with layout designers to optimize layout parasitics and achieve target PPA.
- Involving in layout extraction and understanding layout-dependent parameters in the extracted netlist.
- Implementing, testing, and analyzing circuit design guidelines and methodologies.
The Impact You Will Have:
- Driving innovations in standard cell design that contribute to the success of Synopsys products.
- Enhancing the performance, power, and area (PPA) of our silicon IP portfolio.
- Mentoring and developing the next generation of R&D engineers.
- Collaborating across functions to ensure methodology alignment and optimization.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of circuit design methodologies.
- Supporting the integration of more capabilities into System-on-Chip (SoC) designs, meeting unique performance, power, and size requirements.
What You ll Need:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in standard cell library design.
- Deep understanding of CMOS device characteristics and submicron process nodes.
- Experience with FINFET/GAA technologies and high sigma variation analysis.
- Familiarity with layout design and optimization of layout parasitics.
