Physical Design Engineer

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Acacia designs intelligent transceivers using advanced signal processing and photonic integration for the 100G, 400G and 1T bit speed fiber optic transmission market deployed in data center, metro, long-haul and ultra-long haul telecommunication networks. This role sits on our ASIC team providing infrastructure support for RTL implementation to gates.

You will collaborate with Acacias ASIC and Hardware teams in the engineering organization to deliver tape-out quality physical designs.

You will work closely with RTL designers to debug and root-cause physical implementation issues related to design, tools, etc. and arrive at a feasible solution through the augmentation of input and design collateral.

You will work closely with Back-end team on timing signoff for seamless physical design closure.

You will work with the ASIC physical design team to enhance and continuously improve the physical design implementation flow.

Acacia takes pride in providing and fostering a collaborate environment in order ensure success and personal growth.

• BS in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent with 7+ years, Masters with 4+ years, or PhD with +1 years of experience in the telecommunications industry
• 7 years of professional engineering experience, including experience in advanced technology nodes: 7nm/5nm/3nm and below
• Experience with flow support and development. Scripting experience with TCL, Python, Perl, Make
• Experience with industry standard CAD methodologies from Cadence, Synopsys and/or Mentor
• Experience with floor planning & partitioning, synthesis, place & route, static timing analysis (STA), formal equivalence check, Clock Tree Synthesis, timing closure, signal integrity, physical verification DRC/LVS
• Experience Executing ASICs from product definition to production release

• Experience with power analysis, electromigration, IR signoff, process corner decisions, power grid analysis.
• Experience managing stakeholders across analog and digital teams while interfacing with EDA vendors on issues/features/enhancements.
• Experience presenting technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience initiating task without supervision.

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