Sr. SOC/ASIC Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

SpaceX
Sunnyvale, Irvine, Austin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 170,000 - 230,000 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Teamwork","Self-motivated"]

Senior hardware engineer focused on physical design of ASIC/SOC silicon for SpaceX Starlink, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver partition synthesis, floorplanning, signoff, and RTL-to-GDSII flows for next-generation space-grade silicon.

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SpaceX
4 months ago

Sr. SOC/ASIC Physical Design Engineer (Silicon Engineering)

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Job Summary

Senior hardware engineer focused on physical design of ASIC/SOC silicon for SpaceX Starlink, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver partition synthesis, floorplanning, signoff, and RTL-to-GDSII flows for next-generation space-grade silicon.
Location: Sunnyvale, Irvine, Austin
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 170,000 - 230,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kEquityPaid LeaveParential Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
  • •5+ years of ASIC and/or physical design flow development experience in industry
  • •Strong experience in ASIC/SOC RTL2GDSII physical design and signoff flows
  • •Strong experience with industry standard EDA tools including understanding of their capabilities and underlying algorithms
  • •Knowledge of deep sub-micron FinFET and CMOS solid state physics
Experience:5+ yearsSilicon engineeringASICPhysical designEDA tools
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationTeamworkSelf-motivated
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RTLGDSIIEDA toolsPythonPerlTCLBashMakefileDFT/MBIST

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
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