Staff/Senior Staff Physical Design Engineer (Technical Lead)

The role

You will serve as a Technical Lead for next-generation silicon products. You will own the physical delivery of a major sub-chip or complex block and lead a small team of PD engineers.

What you will do

• Lead a small team of PD engineers providing technical direction and workload management
• Take personal hands-on ownership of critical, high-congestion, or timing-critical blocks
• Act as the primary architect for PD convergence and implement custom PPA recipes
• Develop Tcl and Python scripts for flow automation, data mining, and sign-off verification
• Build rapport with RTL, DFT, and Synthesis teams
• Ensure the sub-chip meets all gold-standard sign-off criteria including STA, EM/IR, and Physical Verification

Required qualifications

• Staff 8-10 years experience
• Senior Staff 11-13 years experience
• PD experience with a proven track record of multiple successful lead-level tape-outs
• Expert-level proficiency in Cadence Innovus/Tempus
• Deep expertise in Static Timing Analysis (STA), including complex clocking, multi-corner sign-off, and crosstalk closure
• Demonstrated ability to squeeze performance out of advanced nodes (7nm, 5nm, or below)
• Advanced scripting in Tcl and Python
• Proactive communicator
• Analytical problem solver
• Ready to jump into any part of the flow from floorplan to GDSII
• Passionate about raising the technical bar for engineers

Nice to have

• SOC clocking specialized skills
• FEV/VCLP specialized skills

About the company

EnCharge AI is a leader in advanced AI hardware and software systems for edge-to-cloud computing. Launched in 2022, it is led by veteran technologists with backgrounds in semiconductor design and AI systems.