Staff Engineer, Physical Design (AI2479) Bengaluru, India
SiMa.ai
Design
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Feb 17, 2026
Description
Job Title: Staff Engineer, Physical Design
Job Location: Bangalore, India (This position requires a full-time, on-site presence in our Bangalore, India Office)
Job ID: AI2479
Job Description:
Role & responsibilities:
- Physical Design of blocks (from synthesis to GDS) and handle complex block implementation individually.
- PPA optimization.
- Develop and validate high performance and/or low- power clock network guidelines.
- Perform block-level place and route and close the design to meet timing, area and power constraints.
- Drive the logic equivalency RTL2Synthesis and Synthesis2APR netlist.
- Generate and implement ECOs to fix timing, noise and EM-IR violations.
- Run physical design verification flow at block level and provide guidelines to fix LVS/DRC violations to other designers.
- Participate in establishing CAD and physical design methodologies for correct-by-construction designs.
- Assist in P&R flow development and/or refinement for chip integration.
- Write scripts in TCL/Perl/Python to achieve productivity enhancements through automation.
Minimum Requirements:
- BSEE or MSEE with at least 6+ years of physical design experience on high complexity SoC designs using 7 nm or lower.
- Strong understanding of all aspects of physical construction, integration, sign-off and physical verification
- Good understanding of placement, clocking & routing strategies, challenges and their mitigation/solutions.
- To be able to work with logic/rtl design team for timing fixes.
- Solid understanding of extraction and STA methodology and tools description.
- Power user of industry standard physical design and signoff tools.
- Deep understanding of scripting languages such as Perl/Tcl/Python
Following expertise is a plus:
- Hands-on SoC floorplanning and expertise in analog, ESD etc. placement and related rules.
- SoC PV clean-up at floorplan stage
Personal Attributes:
Can-do attitude. Strong team player. Curious, creative and good at solving problems. Execution and results-oriented. Self-driven, Thinks Big and is highly accountable. Good communication skills.

