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PRINCIPAL PHYSICAL DESIGN ENGINEER, EMIR & POWER INTEGRITY (SILICON ENGINEERING)

As a member of our multifaceted ASIC team, you will have the rare and phenomenal opportunity to craft upcoming SOCs that will enable our Starlink chips. These chips help connect, enable, and empower humanity every single day with performance that far surpasses that of traditional satellite internet and ground infrastructure limitations. Starlink delivers high-speed, low latency broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable.

In this critical role, as an SOC EMIR and Power Integrity engineer, you will be collaborating with physical design, timing, and logic design teams making a crucial impact on delivering cutting edge SOCs for customers on Earth and beyond. We are looking for people who want to dive in and get their hands dirty and push the limits of what is possible through innovation, determination and teamwork.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and support block and full chip automated static and instantaneous voltage (IR) drop, signal electromigration (EM) flows
• Responsible for block and full chip static/dynamic EMIR, rush current, DFT (Design For Test) IR, analysis and chip power model
• Collaborate with package, architecture and physical design teams to create power distribution network (PDN), improve padring, bump and redistribution layer (RDL) design
• Define modes and corners for functional/scan shift static voltage, instantaneous voltage and EM analysis
• Package modeling and analysis, chip package co-design for high performance processing
• Closely collaborate with physical design and timing signoff team members to enable IR drop aware timing flows

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
• 10+ years of experience working with block or full chip voltage drop and/or power/signal electro-migration analysis

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experienced in industry standard tools used for EM/IR Drop such as RedHawk, Voltus, etc.
• Experience in developing for block and full chip level IR Drop and EM analysis flows
• Knowledge in high frequency power integrity simulation and analysis
• Experience in IP integration (e.g. memories, I/O’s, Analog IPs, SerDes, DDR etc.)
• Proven experience in silicon (on-chip) and package power delivery network principles
• Strong knowledge of deep sub-micron FinFET technology nodes (7nm and below)  and design challenges
• Experience with high reliability design and implementations
• Excellent scripting skills (csh/bash, Perl, Python, TCL, Makefile etc.)
• Self-driven individual with a can-do attitude, and an ability to work in a dynamic group environment

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be willing to travel when needed (typically <10%)
• Willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed, to meet critical deadlines

ITAR REQUIREMENTS:

• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.  

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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