Senior Physical Design Engineer

Job Details
Job Description:
Altera is seeking an experienced Physical Design Manager to lead a high-performing team responsible for delivering production-quality physical implementation for advanced semiconductor designs. This role combines technical leadership, people management, cross-functional execution, and ownership of predictable, high-quality tapeout results.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across the physical design flow, a strong track record managing complex SoC or ASIC programs, and the ability to build an inclusive, accountable engineering culture.
What you will do
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of physical design engineers in Bangalore.
Own physical implementation planning and execution from netlist through signoff and tapeout.
Drive floorplanning, power planning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, optimization, extraction, timing closure, physical verification, and signoff activities.
Establish technical direction, project priorities, execution plans, and quality standards for the team.
Partner closely with RTL design, microarchitecture, DFT, STA, CAD, verification, packaging, and product engineering teams.
Identify physical design risks early and lead mitigation plans across schedule, power, performance, area, and manufacturability.
Review and improve design methodologies, automation, flows, tools, and engineering practices.
Ensure effective use of metrics, reviews, documentation, and lessons learned to improve predictability and execution quality.
Contribute to staffing plans, capability development, performance management, and succession planning.
Communicate technical status, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering leadership.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
12+ years of experience in ASIC or SoC physical design, with significant experience leading teams or major project areas.
Strong hands-on understanding of the complete physical design flow from synthesis handoff through signoff.
Experience with floorplanning, power distribution, placement, CTS, routing, timing closure, signal integrity, IR drop, electromigration, physical verification, and design-for-manufacturability considerations.
Demonstrated experience delivering complex designs to tapeout in advanced process technologies.
Strong knowledge of timing constraints, multi-voltage or low-power design, ECO implementation, and signoff methodologies.
Experience collaborating across geographically distributed, cross-functional engineering teams.
Strong problem-solving, planning, prioritization, communication, and people-leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with high-performance, high-volume, networking, compute, FPGA, or other complex SoC designs.
Experience managing multiple projects, blocks, or design programs concurrently.
Familiarity with industry-standard implementation and signoff tools, including tools from leading EDA vendors.
Experience developing automation using Tcl, Python, Perl, or similar scripting languages.
Experience defining physical design methodologies, flows, dashboards, and productivity improvements.
Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering teams.
Knowledge of advanced-node challenges such as congestion, variability, multicorner-multimode closure, and restrictive design rules.
Job Type
Regular
Shift
Shift 1 (India)
Primary Location:
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Additional Locations:
Posting Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

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