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CPU Core Physical Design Staff Engineer

at Advanced Micro Devices

📍 Austin, Texas, United States Hybrid Posted March 18, 2026
Type Full-Time
Experience mid
Exp. Years Not specified
Education MS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
Category Software Engineering

This role involves owning a portion of CPU core physical design, from synthesis to placement and routing, ensuring high performance and power efficiency in semiconductor chips.

  • Implement logic and transistor design principles
  • Collaborate with external disciplines
  • Optimize timing paths
  • Prepare design schedules
  • Recommend technical tradeoffs

Focuses on ASIC physical design, logic design, transistor-level circuit design, and CAD tools for high-performance semiconductor manufacturing.

The ideal candidate is a mid-level hardware design engineer with expertise in physical design, logic design, and semiconductor manufacturing processes. They should have experience with CAD tools, synthesis, and place and route, and be capable of independently executing high-performance ASIC designs.

Logic designPhysical designCAD toolsSynthesisPlace and route
Power optimizationTiming analysisCircuit macro delivery
CAD toolsSynthesis toolsPlace and route tools
Logic designTransistor level circuit designCAD toolsSynthesisPlace and routeElectrical analysisHigh-performance designStandard cell libraries
Logic designTransistor level circuit designCAD toolsSynthesisPlace and routeElectrical analysisHigh-performance designStandard cell libraries
IndependenceInnovationLearningTechnical contributionCollaboration
Industry Semiconductors & Electronics
Job Function Design and optimize CPU core physical layout for high-performance semiconductor chips.
Role Subtype Systems Engineer
Tech Domains Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows Server, Hardware Design
Clearance Required None
Visa Sponsorship No
CPU core physical designLogic designTransistor level circuit designCAD toolsSynthesisPlace and routeElectrical analysisHigh-performance designStandard cell librariesPhysical designASIC designVLSISemiconductorHardware designTiming optimizationPower optimizationPhysical verificationDesign tradeoffsSilicon designphysical designlogic designcad toolssynthesisplace and routeelectrical analysishigh-performancestandard cell librariesASIC

Lack of experience with physical design tools, No MS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, No semiconductor or ASIC design background

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