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You'll be joining our Physical Design team within Cisco Silicon One, which is responsible for the entire backend methodology and flow development from RTL to GDS. This is a critical part of the group leading the development of high-quality VLSI designs.

Our Backend Engineers handle all aspects of chip design, including Definition, Physical Synthesis, Place and Route, Optimization, Timing Closure, Design Floor Planning.

You will be leveraging your backend and physical design experience to drive the development, optimization, and innovation of CAD methodologies and tools, ensuring the highest quality and efficiency in our chip design flows from RTL to GDS.

You will work on physical synthesis, place and route, optimization, timing closure, and floor planning activities. Success in this role means delivering high-quality implementation results, learning quickly from senior engineers, and helping improve the flow and methodology used by the team.

Contribute to physical synthesis, place and route, optimization, and timing closure for complex VLSI designs.
Support design floor planning and implementation planning in collaboration with senior physical design engineers.
Analyze timing, congestion, power, area, and design-rule issues and help drive them toward closure.
Work with physical design verification flows, including LVS and DRC, to support clean implementation handoff.
Partner with cross-functional teams to debug implementation issues and improve backend flow quality.

We are looking for best-in-class Physical Design Engineers to join our outstanding Networking Silicon engineering team, developing the industry's best high-speed communication devices, delivering the highest throughput and lowest latency! Come and take a part in designing our groundbreaking and innovating chips, enjoy working in a meaningful, growing and highly professional environment where you make a significant impact in a technology-focused company.

What you'll be doing:
Physical design of blocks according to specifications under challenging constraints targeting for the best power, area, and performance.
Be exposed and work on a variety of challenging designs (including high cell count and HS blocks). Resolving complex timing and congestion problems.
Daily work involves all aspects of physical design chip development (RTL2GDS) - synthesis, power and clock distribution, place and route, timing closure, power and noise analysis, and physical verification.
Taking part inflows development.

As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a highly skilled Chip Top Physical Design Engineer focusing on implementation to join our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up.
If you thrive on solving complex, unnamed challenges in deep-submicron processes, your place is with us.

As a Physical Design Engineer, you will be a key hands-on member of our PD Team in the Israel R&D center. You will execute the physical design of the SoC Top level for chips that drive the worlds largest AI clusters. You will be deeply involved in all PD disciplines of the chip, driving the tape-out (T.O.) GDS to meet strict signoff criteria (Timing, LVS, EMIR, DRC, PV, etc.), ensuring our silicon meets the extreme performance, power, and area (PPA) targets required for AI scale.

Key Responsibilities
Execute SoC Top-level physical design and actively drive full-chip convergence.
Perform Top-Level physical implementation, including floor-planning, Place & Route (P&R), Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), Power/Clock distribution, Power Integrity, and Timing/Physical signoff.
Work closely with the Architecture, Design, DFT, and Product teams to achieve optimal Power, Performance, and Area (PPA). This involves participating in feasibility studies for new architectures and optimizing runs to ensure the best Quality of Results (QoR).
Resolve complex signal integrity, thermal, and power challenges inherent in high-speed connectivity silicon.
Collaborate closely with the Package team on Bump-map-to-Ballout design, taking all signal integrity aspects into consideration.

we are seeking a Physical Design Technical Leader.

As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a highly skilled Physical Design Engineer specializing in SoC EMIR to join our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up.

This is a unique opportunity to take on meaningful technical ownership in a new site, executing the backend power methodologies for chips that power the world's largest AI clusters. As an EMIR Engineer, you will be a core technical contributor ensuring the power robustness and long-term reliability of our high-performance connectivity silicon.

You will be responsible for SoC EMIR Analysis to ensure our products meet aggressive voltage drop and reliability targets in advanced FinFET process nodes, directly impacting the performance and yield of chips operating in the worlds most demanding AI and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities
Take responsibility on IR drop analysis and signal/power electromigration (EM) of very complex chip.
Collaborate closely with Physical Design team to insure a full power integrity.
Partner with Package Design engineers to perform Chip-Package co-analysis (CPM).
Understand root-cause analysis for voltage drop violations and EM risks.

As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a visionary Silicon Technical Program Manager to help build our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to take on meaningful product ownership in a new site, leading the physical implementation strategy for chips that power the world's largest AI clusters.

As an Technical Program Manager, you will be the key architect of our silicons operational reality. You wont just track timelines - you will help establish our local execution culture and technical standards, owning the cross-functional journey of transforming complex logic into high-performance silicon.

Key Responsibilities
Drive and manage ASIC development and subsystems from concept through to production in collaboration with internal teams and external vendors.
Provide hands-on program management throughout the full development cycle of silicon and firmware, including concept, design, development, fabrication, validation, and production release.
Work closely with the software, hardware, and architecture teams to align with product requirements and ensure all constraints are met.
Lead process improvements across multiple teams and functions to drive better collaboration and efficiency.
Independently manage complex projects with minimal supervision, ensuring timelines and milestones are met.
Deliver high-quality ASIC solutions products while collaborating with product management and architecture teams.

As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a highly skilled Physical Design Engineer specializing in SoC EMIR to join our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up.

This is a unique opportunity to take on meaningful technical ownership in a new site, executing the backend power methodologies for chips that power the world's largest AI clusters. As an EMIR Engineer, you will be a core technical contributor ensuring the power robustness and long-term reliability of our high-performance connectivity silicon.

You will be responsible for SoC EMIR Analysis to ensure our products meet aggressive voltage drop and reliability targets in advanced FinFET process nodes, directly impacting the performance and yield of chips operating in the worlds most demanding AI and cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities
Take responsibility on IR drop analysis and signal/power electromigration (EM) of very complex chip.
Collaborate closely with Physical Design team to insure a full power integrity
Be responsible on IR architecture for timing convergence.
Partner with Package Design engineers to perform Chip-Package co-analysis (CPM).
Understand root-cause analysis for voltage drop violations and EM risks.
Be responsible and go-to person for any IR related issues.

As a Digital Backend Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the physical implementation of digital designs from RTL to GDSII, leveraging cutting-edge EDA tools and methodologies. You will collaborate closely with RTL design, DFT, and packaging teams to achieve optimal performance, power, and area (PPA), while meeting stringent timing and yield targets.

Responsibilities
Execute full-chip and block-level physical design tasks including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and physical verification.

Develop and optimize the digital backend flow.

Drive timing closure, power optimization, and physical verification (LVS/DRC/ERC).

Collaborate with front-end designers to address timing and logical/physical interface issues.

Support tapeout preparation and final signoff processes.

Key job responsibilities
* Daily involvement in all aspects of physical design chip development (RTL2GDS), including floorplanning, synthesis, clock tree synthesis, place and route, static timing analysis, power and noise analysis, physical verification testing, and equivalence checks.
* Being actively engaged in design-backend convergence aspects and defining timing constraints.
* Taking full end-to-end responsibility for the physical design of macros and clusters level, according to specifications, under challenging constraints, with focus on optimizing power, area, and performance.
* Participation in the development of design flows, using a variety of EDA tools and vendors such as Synopsis and Cadence.
* Engaged in defining implementation and signoff methodologies.