3 months ago

Physical Design Engineer II (Silicon Engineering)

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Job Summary

SpaceX is hiring a Physical Design Engineer II to develop next‑generation ASICs for Starlink, collaborating with cross‑disciplinary teams to drive architectural feasibility, timing, power, and area targets. You will perform partition synthesis, floorplanning, signoff, and design verification for RTL2GDSII workflows, enabling high‑reliability space and ground infrastructure systems.

Location: Sunnyvale, Irvine

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

•Perform partition synthesis and physical implementation steps (e.g. synthesis, floorplanning, power/ground grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage drop, logic equivalency and other signoff checks).
•Develop/improve physical design methodologies and automation scripts for various implementation steps.
•Closely collaborate with the ASIC design team to drive architectural feasibility studies, develop timing, power and area design targets, and explore RTL/design tradeoffs.
•Resolve design/timing/congestion and flow issues, identify potential solutions and drive execution.
•Run, debug, and fix signoff closure issues in static timing analysis (STA), noise, logic equivalency, physical verification, electromigration and voltage drop.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 155,000 - 185,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kPaid LeaveDisabilityLife Insurance

Key Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science.
•3+ years of professional experience working on RTL2GDSII physical design and/or physical design flow development.
•Experience with industry standard EDA tools and understanding of their capabilities.
•Knowledge of deep sub‑micron FinFET and CMOS solid state physics.
•Basic knowledge of DFT/Scan/MBIST/LBIST and their impact on physical design flows and scripting skills (csh/bash, Perl, Python, TCL, Makefile).

Experience:3+ yearsSpaceSatelliteSemiconductorEDAASIC

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:PythonPerlTCLMakefileBashCshDFTMBISTLBIST

Languages:English

Tech Stack:RTLGDSIIEDA toolsFinFETCMOSDFTMBISTLBISTScripting

Company Brief

SpaceX

Designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers, aiming to reduce space transportation costs and enable human life on Mars through reusable launch vehicles and integrated space systems.

Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Established Company

Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Hawthorne, United States

Founded: 2002

Glassdoor: 4.2

Website LinkedIn

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SpaceX

3 months ago

Physical Design Engineer II (Silicon Engineering)

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 2 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Sunnyvale, Irvine

Workplace: Onsite

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

•Perform partition synthesis and physical implementation steps (e.g. synthesis, floorplanning, power/ground grid generation, place and route, timing, noise, physical verification, electromigration, voltage drop, logic equivalency and other signoff checks).
•Develop/improve physical design methodologies and automation scripts for various implementation steps.
•Closely collaborate with the ASIC design team to drive architectural feasibility studies, develop timing, power and area design targets, and explore RTL/design tradeoffs.
•Resolve design/timing/congestion and flow issues, identify potential solutions and drive execution.
•Run, debug, and fix signoff closure issues in static timing analysis (STA), noise, logic equivalency, physical verification, electromigration and voltage drop.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 155,000 - 185,000 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kPaid LeaveDisabilityLife Insurance

Key Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science.
•3+ years of professional experience working on RTL2GDSII physical design and/or physical design flow development.
•Experience with industry standard EDA tools and understanding of their capabilities.
•Knowledge of deep sub‑micron FinFET and CMOS solid state physics.
•Basic knowledge of DFT/Scan/MBIST/LBIST and their impact on physical design flows and scripting skills (csh/bash, Perl, Python, TCL, Makefile).

Experience:3+ yearsSpaceSatelliteSemiconductorEDAASIC

Education:Bachelor's

Skills:PythonPerlTCLMakefileBashCshDFTMBISTLBIST

Languages:English

Tech Stack:RTLGDSIIEDA toolsFinFETCMOSDFTMBISTLBISTScripting

Company Brief

SpaceX

Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing

Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)

Growth: Established Company

Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)

Funding: Series E+

Headquarters: Hawthorne, United States

Founded: 2002

Glassdoor: 4.2

Website LinkedIn