# Physical Design Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Caesarea, Israel
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco Silicon One is seeking a Physical Design Engineer.

The Physical Design team within Cisco Silicon One owns backend methodology and flow development from RTL to GDS. The team plays a critical role in developing high-quality VLSI designs for some of Cisco's most advanced silicon products.

You will collaborate with experienced engineers across architecture, design, verification, and implementation to deliver high-performance silicon.

As a Physical Design Engineer, you will contribute to backend implementation work across key stages of chip design, helping move complex designs from RTL toward GDS.

Your responsibilities include:

- Contribute to physical synthesis, place and route, optimization, and timing closure for complex VLSI designs.

- Support design floor planning and implementation planning in collaboration with senior physical design engineers.

- Analyze timing, congestion, power, area, and design-rule issues and help drive them toward closure.

- Work with physical design verification flows, including LVS and DRC, to support clean implementation handoff.

- Partner with cross-functional teams to debug implementation issues and improve backend flow quality.

The minimum qualifications for this role are:

- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

- 2+ years of hands-on experience in VLSI backend design or a relevant physical design domain.

- Strong understanding of the Place & Route flow.

- Hands-on experience with physical synthesis, place and route, optimization, timing closure, or design floor planning.

Preferred qualifications include:

- Understanding of physical construction and integration concepts across backend implementation.

- Knowledge of physical design verification methodology, including LVS and DRC.

- Familiarity with physical design EDA tools such as Synopsys, Cadence, or similar platforms.

- Ability to learn independently, take ownership of assigned tasks, and work effectively with teammates.

- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail in complex technical environments.

## Skills

### Required
- VLSI backend design
- Place & Route flow
- physical synthesis
- place and route
- optimization
- timing closure
- design floor planning

### Nice to have
- physical construction and integration concepts
- physical design verification methodology
- LVS
- DRC
- Synopsys
- Cadence

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