Introduction
As a Hardware Developer at IBM, you'll get to work on the systems that are driving the quantum revolution and the AI era. Join an elite team of engineering professionals who enable IBM customers to make better decisions quicker on the most trusted hardware platform in today's market.
Your Role and Responsibilities
Do you have a passion for learning and applying modern hardware engineering practices? Are you excited to use these practices to deliver one of the highest performance processors in the world? Are you a quick thinker? If so, please read on.
IBM Z Hardware Development is seeking an experienced physical design engineer for development of our next-generation Z processor.
Job Duties:
• Partner with our design team to drive the physical design aspects of a complex, high-frequency processor chip, including integration, logic synthesis, LVS, DRC, static timing, noise analysis, and power routing.
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• Provide physical design feedback to logic owners and other stakeholders to ensure the chip design is on the best path to closure and delivery to fabrication.
• Apply your experience to mentor junior engineers, improve physical design methodology, and increase the overall efficiency of your team.
About the Team
You will be working as part of a global chip design team to design and build one of the highest-performance processors in the world on cutting-edge technology nodes.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• BSEE and 4 years or MSEE and 3 years of experience in physical design.
• Demonstrated experience in scripting and methodology flows.
• Experience in physical design closure.
• Demonstrated communication skills in a global team environment.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience with EDA tools, Cadence, Synopsys, etc.
• Experience with scripting languages used in hardware design, Tcl, Python, Perl, etc.
• Experience in custom layout.
• Exposure to integration methods and requirements.
• Exposure to static timing analysis and noise analysis.
• Exposure to industry microprocessor designs (e.g., x86, ARM, or RISC-V processor designs)