Principal Physical Design Engineer, HBM

Richardson, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 23 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all.

Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence inspiring the world to learn communicate and advance faster than ever.

Responsibilities

Lead endtoend physical design for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) base and memory dies from netlist through GDSII including floorplanning power planning placement clock tree synthesis routing and signoff.
Define and drive HBMspecific physical architecture including channel partitioning physical layer (PHY) placement throughsilicon via (TSV) keepout regions and diepackage codesign alignment.
Optimize bandwidth latency power and yield through architecturelevel tradeoffs and collaboration with memory architecture PHY RTL synthesis designfortest and packaging teams.
Lead power delivery network design and ensure IR drop electromigration and thermal closure across all operating modes.
Oversee timing closure across corners for highspeed logic and HBM PHY interfaces addressing signal integrity noise and crosstalk.
Ensure physical signoff readiness including static timing analysis IR/EM signal integrity design rule checks layout versus schematic density and reliability compliance.
Drive engineering change order strategies flow improvements automation and methodology development for HBM physical design.
Mentor engineers and serve as a key technical voice in tapeout and executive design reviews.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors degree or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field or equivalent professional experience.
12 years of handson experience in advancednode physical design with proven tapeout experience in HBM dynamic randomaccess memory (DRAM) or large memorycentric designs.
Deep expertise in floorplanning hierarchical physical design timing closure static timing analysis power integrity (IR/EM) thermal analysis and physical signoff.
Expertlevel experience with Cadence Innovus and/or Synopsys ICC2 or Fusion Compiler plus experience with Voltus RedHawk or equivalent power integrity tools.
Familiarity with Calibre design rule checking layout versus schematic and advanced foundry signoff flows.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with HBM2E HBM3 or HBM3E products and TSVbased designs including microbump layouts.
Knowledge of dietodie interfaces wide parallel buses and advanced packaging such as 2.5D interposers and chiplets.
Background in signal integrity considerations for dense highspeed memory designs.
Strong Tcl or Python scripting skills for physical design flow automation.
Experience supporting systemlevel integration with graphics processing units accelerators or systemonchips.

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