Physical Design Staff Engineer - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on Physical Design within the CPU Domain.
About the role
This role involves planning, designing, optimizing, verifying, and testing electronic systems as a Hardware Engineer. The scope includes physical design, STA, and timing signoff within the CPU Domain.
What you'll do
- Plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, circuits, and digital systems.
- Perform physical implementation from floorplan to PRO and timing signoff.
- Prepare complex ECOs for timing convergence across multiple corners.
- Minimize power for physical designs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience OR Master's degree and 3+ years OR PhD and 2+ years.
- Solid understanding of industry standard tools for physical implementation [Genus, Innovus, FC, PT, Tempus, Voltas, Redhawk].
- Grip on floorplan to PRO and timing signoff, including understanding of IR drop and physical verification.
- Experience preparing complex ECOs for timing convergence through Tweaker / Tempus / Physical PT ECOs.
- Awareness of tricks for minimizing power.
Nice to have
- 8 years of experience in Physical design, STA in CPU Domain.
- Experience in deep submicron process technology nodes.
- Knowledge of high performance and low power implementation methods.
- Expertise in Perl, TCL language.
Skills: Physical design, STA, floorplan, timing signoff, deep submicron
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 64-day median for Physical Design roles.
Physical Design · Physical Design
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Open roles in category
627
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Median days open
64 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (627 roles · 79 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 116 | 627 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 158 | 1420 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 40 d | 64 d (−24 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: Physical design, STA, floorplan, timing signoff, deep submicron
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 114 open roles · median 40 d
- AMD · 44 open roles · median 28 d
- Broadcom · 40 open roles · median 78 d
- NVIDIA · 38 open roles · median 53 d
- Synopsys · 27 open roles · median 56 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 25 open roles · median 77 d
How we counted: 627 open Physical Design (Physical Design) roles from 79 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 29 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.