# Physical Design Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Cisco SiliconOne team in Bangalore, India, and be part of crafting groundbreaking Enterprise and Service Provider solutions. As a Physical Design Engineer, you will create next-generation networking chips in advanced process nodes.

Your responsibilities include:

- Driving the backend process through RTL 2 GDS Implementation flow

- Hierarchical floor planning, place & route, timing closure, power integrity, static timing verification, physical verification, and equivalence checks

- Performance and die size optimization

Requirements:

- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 4+ years of experience

- Experience with ASIC physical implementation, including floor planning, clock and power distribution, global signal planning, I/O planning, and hard IP integration

- Knowledge of hierarchical design implementation approach, timing closure, and physical convergence

- Experience with automation scripts within STA tools for methodology development

- Power integrity analysis and STA setup, convergence methodology, reviews, and sign-off for multi-mode and multi-corner designs

Preferred qualifications:

- Analyzing current generation quality and efficiency gaps to identify incremental or evolutionary changes

- Good understanding of different CTS strategies and providing feedback to the implementation team

- Driving methodologies and 'best known methods' to streamline and automate physical design work

- Experience with timing ECO implementation strategy development and convergence

At Cisco, you're part of a team that's revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era.

## Skills

### Required
- ASIC physical implementation
- Floor planning
- Clock and Power distribution
- global signal planning
- I/O planning
- hard IP integration
- Hierarchical design implementation
- Timing closure
- physical convergence
- STA tools
- Power integrity analysis

### Nice to have
- CTS strategies
- Implementation Team
- Methodology development
- Timing ECO implementation
- convergence

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