
ASIC Physical Design Tools, Flows, Methodologies Manager
Job Description
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of tools, flows, and methodologies (TFM) engineers supporting custom silicon development for Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) products.
- Oversee the physical design methodology, driving the development and optimization of flows including place and route (P&R), RC extraction, logic equivalency checking (LEC), static timing analysis (STA), EMIR, and physical verification.
- Triage and manage team priorities across tapeouts, balancing flow bugs, feature developments, and methodology improvements.
- Collaborate with internal physical design (PD) execution teams, register-transfer level (RTL) designers, and external electronic design automation (EDA) vendors to troubleshoot flow issues, improve tool quality of results (QoR), and drive vendor enhancements.
- Define and execute the roadmap for flow automation, runtime efficiency, and scalability across process nodes.