Sr. Staff EMIR CAD Engineer

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert user of  Ansys Redhawk SC power integrity analysis toll and have exposure to PnR/STA and extraction industry standard tools and flow

• Support and enhance static IR, dynamic IR, and electromigration flows at the block-level and  subsystem levels

• Provide guidance and feedback to PDN  analysis engineers on EMIR best practices, rules, and methodologies.

• Troubleshoot and debug EMIR issues and provide solutions to improve accuracy and efficiency.

• Develop, support, enhance scripts that can postprocess EMIR results to dashboard and summarize actionable results for design team

• Maintain and release qualified flow releases for large and complex SoCs design & Implementation work.

• Maximize design productivity with strong/efficient Python/Tcl/Perl scripting skills and customization of tool flows

• Qualify EMIR tools with regression management systems and newly written tests.

• Engage with EDA vendors in providing cutting edge single-box solutions for multi-scenario.

• Collaborate with EDA partners to determine/drive optimal and cutting-edge solutions

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Leverages advanced knowledge of computer architecture, micro-architecture, logic design, circuits, and/or physical design to develop and verify critical high performance and low power CPU designs.

•    Anticipates, identifies, and solves highly complex problems to ensure design completeness, functionality, power, and performance. 

•    Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define requirements, specifications, and trade-offs (e.g., performance, power, cost, functionalities, etc.) in order to accomplish product goals.

•    Evaluates all aspects of the design process from conceptualization to productization (i.e., architecture definition, feasibility, pre-silicon design and verification, and post-silicon validation) that meet customer and industry standards.  

•    Writes detailed technical documentation (e.g., feature descriptions, architectural descriptions, verification test plans, and implementation details, etc.) for highly complex CPU designs; reviews documentation of junior engineers.

Level of Responsibility:

•    Works independently with minimal supervision.

•    Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.
•    Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.
•    Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information. May require negotiation, influence, tact, etc. 

•    Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions.

•    Tasks do not have defined steps; planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

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