Physical Design Engineer
Cerebras · Sunnyvale, CA
CHECKED 9H AGO
Infrastructureonsitesenior$230k–$280k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build the world's largest AI chip, 56x larger than GPUs.
- Deliver 10x faster AI training and inference for real-time applications.
- Synthesize, place and route high-speed blocks into full-chip architecture.
Ideal candidate
An ownership-driven hardware engineer who loves deep-diving complex designs and collaborating with RTL teams to push power, performance, and area for breakthrough AI hardware.
Requirements
- 10+ years of physical design/verification experience
- Strong knowledge of block-level and full-chip physical verification methodology
- Strong background in block physical design, synthesis, PDV and IR
- Expert at optimizing for power, performance and area
- Experience with complete physical design flow
- Knowledge of Synopsys tool suite
- Expert with ICV or Calibre for block and full-chip DRC and LVS
- Expert with IR/EM analysis and resolution
- Strong scripting in Tcl and Python with flow enhancements
- Proven collaboration with RTL teams to optimize for physical design
- Ownership mindset with deep understanding of PD concepts
- Experience with full-chip floorplanning and integration
- Knowledge of clock distribution
- Knowledge of cooling analysis
- Knowledge of STA
- Knowledge of 2.5D or 3D packaging solutions
Lab profile
About Cerebras
Builds wafer-scale AI chips and cloud systems for ultra-fast training and inference.
What they build
- Wafer-scale AI chips
- AI training systems
- Cloud inference service
Known for
- 56x larger chips than GPUs
- 10x faster inference than GPU clouds
- Industry-leading training speed