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ASIC/SOC CAD Engineer

MatX · Mountain View (HQ) or Remote · Remote

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About MatX

We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.

About the role

Develop, maintain, and continuously improve MatX's Physical Design flow, from RTL to GDSII flow, including construction and sign-off Automate back-end runs, create reports, post-process logs, generate metrics, and extract insights

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • Minimum 8 years of industry experience in ASIC Physical Design
  • Great interpersonal and communication skills
  • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Perl, Python, and TCL
  • Expertise developing/using industry-standard ASIC tools and methodologies for construction (e.g. partitioning, floorplanning, synthesis, place & route, clocking) and sign-off (equivalency, extraction, timing, power estimation, EMIR, physical verification)
  • This is a hybrid role that will require you to work from our Mountain View, CA office 3 days a week on Tuesday through Thursday
More about this role

MatX's mission is to make the world’s best AI models run as efficiently as allowed by physics, bringing the world years ahead in AI quality and availability. MatX is seeking a Physical Design CAD Engineer to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. The ASIC/SOC Physically Design CAD Engineer will be responsible for creating and maintaining our CAD flow and infrastructure to produce performant and functionally correct silicon for MatX products across compute, memory management, high-speed connectivity, and other key technologies in leading-edge process nodes.

Develop, maintain, and continuously improve MatX's Physical Design flow, from RTL to GDSII flow, including construction and sign-off

Automate back-end runs, create reports, post-process logs, generate metrics, and extract insights

Evaluate, select, and deploy EDA tools and methodologies to produce best-in-class Performance-Power-Area results

Work with EDA tool vendors to drive issues and enhancements to closure

Train and support flow users and resolve any issues they might face

Manage licenses, compute, and storage and optimize for efficiency and cost

May include some...

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