Principal Physical Design Engineer - California, United States - Tenstorrent Inc

Description

This role is hybrid, based out of Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX or Ft. Collins, CO.

Physical design for high-performance designs going into industry leading AI/ML architecture.

The person coming into this role will be involved in all implementation aspects from synthesis to tapeout for various IPs on the chip.

The work is done alongside a group of highly experienced engineers across various domains of the AI chip.


Responsibilities:
Own physical design partitions and drive the design to closure

Define PD requirements by working closely with the front-end team, understand the chip architecture and drive physical aspects early in the design cycle

Physical design tasks including such as synthesis, PnR, timing closure, area improvement, floorplanning, clocking, I/O planning and power optimization

Deploy innovative techniques for improving power, performance and area of the design, drive experiments with RTL, and evaluate synthesis, timing and power results

Collaborate with RTL designers to explore design options, conduct PD experiments, analyze results, understand tradeoffs and arrive at optimal design solutions


Experience & Qualifications:
BS/MS/PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS

Expertise in optimizing PPA for high performance and low power designs

Excellent understanding of logic design fundamentals and gate/transistor level implementation

Prior experience with optimizing RTL for timing/power

Hands-on experience with synthesis, block and chip level implementation, timing closure and ECO flows

Knowledge of low-power design flows such as power gating, multi-Vt and voltage scaling

Prior experience working on high performance technology nodes and understanding of deep sub-micron design problems/solutions

Strong programming skills in Tcl/Perl/Shell/Python

Knowledge of CPU or AI/ML Accelerator Micro Architecture is a plus

Exposure to DFT is an asset

Compensation for all engineers at Tenstorrent ranges from $100k - $500k including base and variable compensation targets. Experience, skills, education, background and location all impact the actual offer made.
Tenstorrent offers a highly competitive compensation package and benefits, and we are an equal opportunity employer.
Due to U.S.

Export Control laws and regulations, Tenstorrent is required to ensure compliance with licensing regulations when transferring technology to nationals of certain countries that have been sanctioned by the U.S.

government.
As this position will have direct and/or indirect access to information, systems, or technologies that are subject toU.S.

Export Control laws and regulations, please note that citizenship/permanent residency informationand/or documentation will be required and considered as Tenstorrent moves through the employment process.

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