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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States Hardware

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In Physical Design, you will be at the center of design effort collaborating with architecture, CAD, timing and logic design teams, with a critical impact on delivering best in class designs. Knowledge of basic chip architecture, back end chip design flow, physical synthesis, floor-planning, place and route (PnR), power grid, timing (STA), physical design verification (DRC/LVS), EMIR (Redhawk/Totem/Voltus). Responsibilities would include:

1. Working with the logic design team to understand partition architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle.
2. Completing netlist to GDS2 implementation for partition(s) meeting schedule and design goals.
3. Timing, physical and electrical verification, and driving the signoff closure for the partitions.
4. Resolve and improve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution.

Minimum Qualifications

• Basic understanding of logic gates.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous internship/co-op, project work or relevant coursework in computer architecture, VLSI, design, logic design, or circuit design.
• Strong teamwork skills with the ability to collaborate with multiple functional teams across a variety of fields.
• Experience with Verilog, VHDL, Python, Perl, TCL and/or SPICE.

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