Physical Design Engineer
About Us
Axelera AI is not your regular deep-tech startup. We are creating the next-generation AI platform to support anyone who wants to help advancing humanity and improve the world around us.
In just four years, we have raised a total of $370 million and have built a world-class team of 220+ employees (including 49+ PhDs with more than 40,000 citations), both remotely from 18 different countries and with offices in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
We have also launched our Metis™ AI Platform, which achieves a 3-5x increase in efficiency and performance, and have visibility into a strong business pipeline exceeding $100 million.
Our unwavering commitment to innovation has firmly established us as a global industry pioneer.
Are you up for the challenge?
Position Overview
As a Physical Design Engineer at Axelera AI, you will be an integral part of the team developing cutting-edge multi-core in-memory compute SoCs. Working closely with senior engineers and cross-functional teams, you will gain hands-on experience across all stages of ASIC Physical Design - from RTL to GDS - including synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, and physical verification.
Key Responsibilities
- Support synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, extraction, timing analysis, and physical verification tasks
- Participate in constraint generation, timing analysis, and optimisation.
- Apply clock tree synthesis (CTS) techniques.
- Integration of IPs including memories, I/Os, and embedded processors.
- Work with EDA tools such as Primetime, StarRC, Fusion Compiler, Formality, Primetime, and Calibre.
- Write and maintain automation scripts in Python, Tcl, or Bash to support flow development.
- Debug physical design issues with support from the broader team.
- Collaborate with architecture, RTL, and verification teams.
Qualifications
- 1-5 years of experience in...