CPU Core Physical Design Engineer
Posted 2026-05-06
Remote, USA
Full-time
Immediate Start
Intel is a leading technology company known for creating world-changing technology. They are seeking a CPU Core Physical Design Engineer to perform physical design implementation of custom CPU designs and ensure high-quality timing closure and optimization across the backend flow.
Responsibilities
- Performs physical design implementation of custom CPU designs from RTL to GDS to create a design database that is ready for manufacturing
- Conducts all aspects of the CPU physical design flow including synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, floor planning, static timing analysis, power/clock distribution, reliability, and power and noise analysis
- Conduct verification and signoff include formal equivalence verification, static timing analysis, reliability verification, static and dynamic power integrity, layout verification, electrical rule checking, and structural design checking
- Analyzes results and makes recommendations to improve current and future CPU microarchitectures closely collaborating with logic, circuit, architecture, and design automation teams
- Possesses CPU specific expertise in various aspects of structural and physical design, including physical clock design, timing closure, coverage analysis, multiple power domain analysis, structured placement, routing, synthesis, and DFT
- Works intimately with industry EDA vendors to build and enhance tool capabilities to design a highspeed, low power synthesizable CPU
- Optimizes CPU design to improve product level parameters such as power, frequency, and area
- Participates in the development and improvement of physical design methodologies and flow automation
Skills
- The candidate must possess a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical/Electronic Engineering or any STEM related degree and 1+ years of relevant experience -OR- Master's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Electrical/Electronic Engineering or any STEM related degree
- At least a year of experience with VLSI circuit design and synthesis
- At least a year of experience with static timing analysis
- At least a year of experience with low power design
- 2+ years of experience in x86 CPU architecture
- 2+ years of experience in TCL/Perl/Python programming
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Stock bonuses
- Health
- Retirement
- Vacation
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