Staff Engineer, Physical Design

Role Summary

We are seeking a Physical Design expert with strong technical and people management skills to join our semiconductor backend team. The role focuses on RTL synthesis ownership, LEC closure, UPF development, and VCLP sign-off for complex SoC designs, collaborating closely with the Physical Design, DFT, and Front-End teams.

Experience Level

Senior, with 10-15 years of experience.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Complete understanding of the RTL to GDS flow in the physical design cycle.
• Collaborate and lead team members to ensure quality and adherence to schedules.
• Own RTL synthesis from elaboration to final signoff.
• Debug design constraints and support DFT insertion.
• Handle multiple tasks and changing priorities from internal customers.
• Deep skills for logic equivalence checks (LEC) across RTL, synthesized, and ECO netlists.
• Create, maintain, and debug UPF, ensuring alignment with Front-End power intent.
• Understand, define, and manage power domains and support low power signoff.
• Handle RTL ECOs during late design stages.
• Automate flows using TCL scripting.
• Lead by example technically with strong expertise in various areas of Physical Design.

Requirements

Required qualifications include:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Physical design for SoC designs.
• Strong knowledge of RTL, synthesis optimization, and low-power design.
• Hands-on experience with UPF creation and power-domain modeling.
• Experience with tools such as Cadence Genus, Synopsys Fusion Compiler, Conformal, VCLP.
• Strong TCL scripting skills; Perl/Python is a plus.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced node experience (7nm / 5nm or below).
• Power-aware ECO experience.
• Exposure to physical-aware synthesis and SoC-level UPF/VCLP closure.

Education Requirements

Information not specified.

About the Company

Company: Renesas

Headquarters: Hitachinaka, Japan

Renesas is a global leader in embedded semiconductor solutions, providing high-quality products across automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT sectors. With over 22,000 employees in more than 30 countries, the company focuses on scalable solutions that enhance user experience and drive innovation while committed to sustainability and energy efficiency.