Physical Design Engineer — Foundry Services

Job Title

Physical Design Engineer — Foundry Services

Role Summary

Implement physical designs for Si interposers and bridge designs, converting floorplans and RTL into manufacturing-ready databases. Work within Intel Foundry to ensure designs meet performance, power, reliability, and area targets for tape-in/tapeout.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to physical-design methodology and automation to support scalable production flows.

Experience Level

Mid-level — typically 3–7 years of relevant industry experience. The posting specifies 4+ years with a Bachelor’s or 3+ years with a Master’s.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include physical implementation, verification, analysis, and methodology improvements for advanced packaging and interposer designs.

• Perform physical design implementation from floorplanning through signoff to produce manufacturing-ready databases for Si interposers and bridges.
• Execute place-and-route, floor planning, routing, and physical-design verification flows.
• Run signal integrity, power analysis, and reliability analyses and recommend fixes for violations.
• Perform verification and signoff tasks: formal equivalence, reliability verification, layout verification, electrical rule checking, and structural design checking.
• Optimize designs for signal integrity, power, reliability, density, and area.
• Design and manage multiple power domains and static/dynamic power integrity solutions; generate required reports.
• Use industry-standard EDA tools for placement, routing, and analysis.
• Participate in development and automation of physical-design methodologies and flows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate physical design across projects.

Requirements

Required and preferred technical and security prerequisites for the role.

Must-have:

• US Citizenship.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
• Experience with EDA tools for custom physical design and auto place-and-route (examples: Virtuoso, Innovus, ICC/ICC2/Fusion, icValidator, Calibre, UPF, RTL, SPICE, OASIS, ODB++).
• Hands-on physical-design experience including at least two of: floor planning, route optimization/shielding, signal-integrity analysis, power-delivery design/analysis for multi-power domains, reliability verification.
• Full-chip physical-design completion and verification experience for tape-in/tapeout.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience optimizing designs specifically for signal integrity and power integrity at advanced nodes.
• Experience in chip-level design and tape-in assembly for advanced technology nodes.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering (with 4+ years' experience) or Master's degree in a related field (with 3+ years' experience). The posting specifies degree plus years of experience as the qualification; no alternative "equivalent experience" language was provided.

About the Company

Company: Intel Corporation

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

Intel Corporation is a leading multinational technology company known for its innovative semiconductor solutions, including microprocessors, artificial intelligence accelerators, and memory products. Headquartered in the United States, Intel focuses on cutting-edge technology and a collaborative working environment, driving advancements in semiconductor manufacturing to meet global demands. The company emphasizes professional development and aims to shape the future of technology through groundbreaking designs.