Staff Physical Design Engineer - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Originally posted 28 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves working on high-performance physical designs, covering everything from synthesis to tapeout across various IP blocks. The team works on high-performance RISC-V CPU and AI chips.
What you'll do
- Take ownership of blocks from synthesis to sign-off: floorplanning, PnR, clocking, and optimization.
- Define physical design needs in collaboration with front-end and architecture teams.
- Coordinate with foundry partners, IP vendors, and design services during integration.
- Improve design quality and drive area, power, and performance improvements through flow tuning and RTL experiments.
What you'll need
- 4-8 years of experience.
- Expertise in solving complex timing, power, and layout problems at advanced nodes.
- Experience on multiple chip tapeouts and understanding of physical design flows end-to-end.
- Proficiency with tools like Innovus, Primetime, and RedHawk.
Skills: synthesis, tapeout, floorplanning, PnR, clocking, Innovus, Primetime, RedHawk
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 63-day median for Physical Design roles.
Physical Design · Physical Design
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Open roles in category
624
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Median days open
63 d
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Median salary
$187k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Tenstorrent | All employers we track in this specialty (624 roles · 78 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 624 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 14 | 1403 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 98 d | 63 d (+35 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $187k |
Skills observed across this category: synthesis, tapeout, floorplanning, PnR, clocking, Innovus
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 113 open roles · median 39 d
- AMD · 41 open roles · median 27 d
- NVIDIA · 38 open roles · median 52 d
- Broadcom · 37 open roles · median 77 d
- Synopsys · 27 open roles · median 66 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 26 open roles · median 76 d
How we counted: 624 open Physical Design (Physical Design) roles from 78 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 28 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.