Backend Lead
About The Position
We’re seeking an experienced Backend Design Manager to spearhead our backend efforts at an exciting, well-backed startup.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll ramp up the complete RTL-to-GDSII flow, build and lead a high-caliber local team, and collaborate with external vendors to ensure successful delivery and tape-outs
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive and own the backend development flow from RTL to GDSII.
- Build and manage a local backend design team.
- Work closely with company various sites.
- Collaborate with external vendors to scale resources as needed.
- Establish and execute project plans and schedules.
- Deliver high-quality, production-ready designs and manage successful tape-outs.
✅ Minimum Qualifications:
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in backend (physical) design.
- Proven expertise across the full RTL2GDSII flow, including:
- Cutting edge technology experience, 5nm and below.
- Logic synthesis and formal equivalence checking
- Constraint definition and timing constraints writing
- Complex IP integration and SoC assembly
- DFT integration and methodology
- Floor planning and power-ground mesh planning
- Place and Route (P&R)
- Low power design techniques (definition, implementation, and verification)
- Static Timing Analysis (STA)
- IR-drop analysis and power integrity
- Tape-out processes and closing
- Project scheduling and execution tracking
- BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering from a leading institution.
🌟 Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong team building and leadership skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
- Demonstrated ability to work with third-party vendors
- Experience with Synopsys and/or Cadence toolchains
- Deep understanding of low-power design methodologies
- Knowledge of clock mesh / multi-source CTS
- Experience in hierarchical design flows
- Familiarity with reading and interpreting RTL code
- Experience with memory compilers and automated block generators