Sr Staff /Principal Engineer, Physical Design

Experience:  10-15 years

Role Summary

We are seeking Physical Design expert/manager with strong people and technical skills in Synthesis, UPF, VCLP, LEC to join our semiconductor backend team. The role focuses on RTL synthesis ownership, LEC closure, UPF development, and VCLP sign‑off for complex SoC designs, working closely with Physical Design, DFT, and Front‑End teams. The person should have skillset for people management as well.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete understanding of RTL to GDS flow in physical design cycle.
• Able to collaborate, lead and drive team members with quality and schedule in check, aligned to organizational needs.
• Own RTL synthesis from elaboration to final signoff. 
• Debug design constraints and support DFT insertion. Cross team collaboration is must.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks (at individual and at team level) and changing priorities from internal customers.
• Deep debug skillset for logic equivalence checks (LEC) across RTL, synthesized, and ECO netlists. 
• Create, maintain, and debug UPF, ensuring alignment with FE power intent. 
• Understand, Define and manage power domains (power switches, isolation, retention, alwayson). Support lowpower signoff (VCLP / power checks). 
• Handle RTL ECOs during late design stages. 
• Automate flows using TCL scripting. 
• Lead by example technically by having a strong technical expertise in several areas of Physical Design.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands‑on experience in Physical design for SoC designs.
• Strong knowledge of RTL, synthesis optimization, and low‑power design.
• Hands‑on experience with UPF creation and power‑domain modelling.
• Experience with tools such as Cadence Genus, Synopsys Fusion Compiler, Conformal, VCLP.
• Strong TCL scripting skills (Perl/Python is a plus).

Preferred

• Advanced node experience (7nm / 5nm or below).
• Power‑aware ECO experience.
• Exposure to physical‑aware synthesis and exposure to SoC‑level UPF/ VCLP closure.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

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