Physical Design Engineer

Physical Design Engineer II, Silicon, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience with advanced design, including clock/voltage domain crossing, Design for Testing (DFT), and low power designs.
• Experience with System on a Chip (SoC) cycles.
• Experience with performance, frequency, and low-power designs.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience coding with System Verilog and scripting with TCL.
• Experience with VLSI design in SoC.
• Experience with multiple cycles of SoC in ASIC design.
• Experience with layout verification and design rules.

About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

In this role, you will be part of a team developing Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) used to accelerate machine learning computation in data centers. You will collaborate with members of architecture, verification, power and performance, physical design etc. to specify and deliver high quality designs for next generation data center accelerators. You will solve technical problems with micro-architecture and logic solutions, and evaluate design options considering complexity, performance, power and area.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the implementation of physical design methodologies.
• Take ownership of one or more physical design partitions.
• Drive to the closure of timing and power consumption of the design.
• Contribute to design methodology, libraries, and code review.
• Define the physical design related rule sets for the functional design engineers.

Experience Level

Mid Level