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Lead Physical Design Engineer

Fractile
Bristol, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 10+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
Cadence InnovusFusion CompilerCalibreEDA tools

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  • Drive the physical implementation of ASIC/SoC designs, including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, and sign-off.
  • Lead or contribute to full-chip execution, block ownership, team leadership, or chip leadership, depending on project needs.
  • Work on synthesis, timing analysis (STA), and optimisation to achieve the best PPA metrics.
  • Own power planning and analysis, addressing IR drop, electromigration, and related effects.
  • Ensure design rule check (DRC), layout vs. schematic (LVS), and other physical verification compliance.
  • Collaborate with DFT engineers to integrate design-for-test (DFT) structures into the physical implementation.
  • Develop and improve flows in EDA tools such as Cadence Innovus, Synopsys Fusion Compiler, Mentor Graphics Calibre, and others.
  • Work closely with RTL and architecture teams to drive design feasibility, constraints, and physical-aware RTL design.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to building strong physical design practices across the team.
  • Work with advanced AI tools and models to improve productivity, analysis, and design quality.
  • Ownership and execution: you will have full agency to drive your work forward
  • Rapid iteration: we all work directly with top leadership to move from idea to hardware on ambitious timelines
  • Full-stack engagement: hardware, software, silicon, and modelling teams all work closely together to create a product with generational impact
  • Optimistic and pragmatic: we possess the will to win, and to do the hard work to get us there
  • Team player mentality: the mission is bigger than any of us, and we have the curiosity and technical focus to see the best idea shipped, no matter who’s it is
  • Founded in 2022, team of 90+ which is expanding rapidly
  • Modern, open offices in London and Bristol
  • Collaborative, problem-solving culture built on deep curiosity, entrepreneurial initiative and technical fluency

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