Silicon Intern - Physical Design & DFT (USA)

The role

This intern will work on Physical Design or DFT tasks to turn verified RTL into manufacturable chips. Work includes synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, clocking, timing closure, and designing hardware for structural post-silicon test.

What you will do

• Physical Design: Synthesis, floorplanning, place & route, clocking, timing closure
• Advanced Physical Design: ML-assisted approaches to physical design flows
• DFT: Design hardware to enable structural post-silicon test
• JTAG, Scan/ATPG, MBIST

Required qualifications

• Currently pursuing a BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering
• Solid understanding of logic design, VLSI, and transistor-level concepts
• Familiarity with PnR tools, timing analysis, and power optimization techniques
• Familiarity with JTAG, MBIST, and scan concepts
• Comfortable scripting in Tcl, Perl, Shell, or Python
• Hands-on experience with a commercial PnR toolchain (Synopsys, Cadence)
• Coursework or projects in DFT, test methodology, VLSI or digital design, computer architecture

Nice to have

• Interest or exposure with AI tools to accelerate development and workflows

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package and benefits

Before you apply

• Applicant must be eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology
• Offer may be contingent upon citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency

About the company

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology. Their team has developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch.