Job Description

Job Details:

About the Foundry Technology Development Group:
Foundry Technology Development (Foundry TD) is the heart and soul of Moore's Law at Intel, enabling Intel to create world-changing technology that enriches the lives of every person on earth. FTD employees drive breakthrough research, develop next generation process and packaging technologies, while also running high volume manufacturing operations in its state-of-the-art facilities.

The Design Technology Platform (DTP) team in Foundry TD works closely with the technology team to maximize the value proposition of the technology for our customers thru Design Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) and delivers the Process Design Kits (PDKs) and Foundational IP (FIP) that designers need to support their product design work and fully leverage the technology. The DTP organization scope includes technology design rules and models, technology and IP testchips, Process Design Kits (PDKs) and Foundational IP.

The Role and Impact

As a Physical Design Engineer, you will play a critical role in enabling customer product design through innovative use of Intel's cutting-edge process technology. Your expertise will directly impact the development of high-performance custom IP and SoC designs, enabling groundbreaking advancements in technology. By optimizing design performance and ensuring robust manufacturability, you will contribute to Intel's mission of delivering industry-leading solutions that power the future. Join us in shaping the next generation of transformative products, where your contributions will leave a lasting imprint on Intel's success and the broader technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute physical design implementation for custom IP and SoC designs from RTL to GDS, creating reference design databases ready for customer use.
• Conduct all aspects of the physical design flow, including synthesis, place and route, clock tree synthesis, floor planning, static timing analysis, and power/clock distribution.
• Perform verification and signoff processes such as formal equivalence verification, static timing analysis, reliability verification, static and dynamic power integrity checks, layout verification, electrical rule checking, and structural design analysis.
• Analyze results and resolve design violations to enhance current and future product architectures.
• Perform placement and routing, synthesis, and Design for Test (DFT) using industry-standard EDA tools and foundry reference flows.
• Optimize designs to improve product parameters, including power, frequency, and area, ensuring alignment with evolving technological demands.
• Participate in evolving and refining physical design methodologies and automation flows to enhance efficiency and quality.
• Drive technical collaboration with internal teams, and EDA vendors to resolve issues and improve design productivity.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent, with a minimum of 12 years of experience in SoC, analog, IP, or ASIC design and/or methodology development.
• Proficiency in running synthesis, place-and-route tools, and physical design flows, with expertise in optimization, timing convergence, IR drop analysis, DRC fixes, and low-power checks.
• Proficiency in static timing analysis and constraints development.
• Experience completing the full RTL to GDS design cycle for SOCs and Testchips, including signoff and tapeout.
• Skilled in Unix/Linux environments and shell programming.
• Solid experience in reliability verification processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electronic, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent, with 10 years of relevant experience or a Ph.D. with 4 years of relevant experience.
• Familiarity with advanced process nodes and design methodologies.
• Expertise in scripting languages such as PERL and TCL for design automation.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong self-initiative, persistence, and ability to deal with a high degree of ambiguity and task and deadline pressure.

We invite you to bring your expertise to Intel and contribute to creating innovative design methodology that redefine industry standards. Apply now to join us in shaping the future of semiconductor design.

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Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (Malaysia)

Primary Location:

Malaysia, Penang

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Business group:

Intel Foundry strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art while delighting our customers -- from delivering cutting-edge silicon process and packaging technology leadership for the AI era, enabling our customers to design leadership products, global manufacturing scale and supply chain, through the continuous yield improvements to advanced packaging all the way to final test and assembly. We ensure our foundry customers' products receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments. Employees in the Foundry Technology Manufacturing are part of a worldwide factory network that designs, develops, manufactures, and assembly/test packages the compute devices to improve the lives of every person on Earth.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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