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SR. SOC PHYSICAL & ELECTRICAL VERIFICATION ENGINEER (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 a SOC physical and electrical verification engineer, you will be collaborating with architecture, 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 physical verification, static and instantaneous voltage drop, signal electromigration, effective resistance analysis flows, and integrate those flows into respective physical design infrastructures
• Perform block and full chip physical verification and voltage drop, power/signal electromigration analysis
• Collaborate with package and architecture teams to create and improve padring, bump and RDL design
• Define modes and corners for functional/scan shift static voltage, instantaneous voltage and electromigration analysis
• Do final GDSII integration, seal ring addition and tapeout collateral generation being the bridge between physical design team and the foundry
• Work with physical design team to drive power grid development and improvement
• Collaborate with physical design/package and other discipline leads to define schedules and support cross-functional engineering efforts
• Collaborate with the physical design team to debug and close physical verification, voltage drop and electromigration issues in the blocks and drive tapeout closure on time and with high quality

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering or computer science
• 5+ years of experience working with block or full chip physical verification, voltage drop and/or power/signal electromigration analysis

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in industry standard tools used for physical verification such as Calibre, ICV and tools used for voltage drop and electromigration such as RedHawk, Voltus, etc.
• Experience in developing block and full chip physical verification flows 
• Experience in full chip GDSII integration, seal ring, tapeout and final collateral handling with the foundry
• Experience in developing block and full chip level voltage drop and electromigration analysis flows
• Experience in IP integration (e.g. memories, I/O’s, analog IPs, SerDes, DDR, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of deep sub-micron FinFET technology nodes (7nm and below) design problems and solutions (leakage power, signal and power integrity, etc.) multi-corner and multimode timing closure, process variations and tapeout experience
• 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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