[Hiring] Senior ASIC Physical Design Engineer @Tensordyne

Role Description

In this leadership role, you will lead ASIC front-end physical design and associated engineering workflow development for Tensordyne’s multimodal generative AI inference acceleration products. As a valued senior member of our ASIC team, you will:

• Guide and assist colleagues to improve frontend physical design aspects at both the block level and full-chip.
• Drive optimization, implementation, and exploration of new frontend physical design workflows, including synthesis, formal checks, and power analysis.
• Provide guidance for STA and technologies for the full ASIC chip design process.
• Continuously innovate and improve scalable, reliable, high-performance systems and tools.
• Work closely with ASIC team members engaged in the design and verification of Tensordyne products to understand and improve their workflows and EDA needs.

This is a hands-on role ideal for ASIC physical design experts with a multi-disciplinary engineering background and a keen interest in generative AI.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on ASIC engineering experience, including deep knowledge of VLSI/SoC chip physical design workflows.
• Experience with EDA tools like Cadence/Synopsys (Genus/DC), power analysis, clock methodology, and other commonly used aspects of physical design flows.
• Strong physical design knowledge for front-end optimization using standard EDA tools.
• Experience leading and supporting backend design teams with an understanding of clock trees, routing, DRC, LVS, and metal fill till artwork release.
• Understanding of STA analysis and constraints for block level and knowledge of full chip timing analysis.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate productively within a global engineering team that moves at a startup pace.
• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

Requirements

• Put people first; we only succeed when our people succeed.
• Ethics and integrity always; being open, honest, and respectful of everyone.
• Think big; be ambitious and have audacious goals.
• Aim for excellence; quality and excellence count in everything we do.
• Own it and get it done; results matter!
• Make each person better together than they would be as an individual.
• Embrace each other's differences and recognize that there will be differences.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits.
• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible spending options.
• Recognition programs.

Company Description

Tensordyne is an AI system solution company that builds very high-performance, low-power generative AI inference systems. We are at the leading edge of advancing the latest research and product improvements for generative AI inference solutions. Tensordyne is a well-funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in both Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany, and many talented team members working remotely across North America and Europe.