Facebook

Silicon Physical Design Engineer

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Redmond, WA

Job Description

The Facebook Reality Labs Silicon team focuses on delivering Facebook's vision through Augmented Reality (AR). Compute power requirements of Augmented Reality require custom silicon. Facebook Silicon team is driving the state of the art forward with breakthrough work in computer vision, machine learning, mixed reality, graphics, displays, sensors, and new ways to map the human body. Our chips will enable AR devices where our real and virtual world will mix and match throughout the day. We believe the only way to achieve our goals is to look at the entire stack, from transistor, through architecture, firmware, and algorithms. We are looking to hire an experienced silicon physical design technical lead to support our efforts in this regard.

Silicon Physical Design Engineer Responsibilities

* Develop and own physical design implementation of multi-hierarchy low-power designs including physical-aware logic synthesis, design for testability, floorplan, place and route, static timing analysis, IR Drop, EM, and physical verification in advanced technology nodes.

* Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution.

* Deliver physical design of an end-to-end IP or integration of ASIC/SoC design.

Minimum Qualifications

* Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent similar experience.

* 10+ years experience in physical design.

* Understanding of RTL2GDSII flow and design tapeouts in 16nm/14nm or below process technologies.

* Experience with low power implementation, power gating, multiple voltage rails, UPF/CPF knowledge.

* Experience working with EDA tools like DC/Genus, ICC2/Innovus, Primetime, Redhawk/Voltus or Calibre.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience running physical-aware logic synthesis and achieving optimal synthesis QoR on low power designs.

* Knowledge of static timing analysis and concepts, defining timing constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions.

* Experience in Block-level and Full-chip floor-planning and power grid planning.

* Experience with custom or regular clock tree synthesis implementation at block level or top level, and clock power reduction techniques.

* Experience with Python, TCL, Perl programming.

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About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

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Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.