Teach Lead Physical Design Engineer
Singapore · Singapore City · 5+ years experience · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Location
- Singapore · Singapore City
About the role
- Astera Labs is seeking a Senior Physical Design Engineer to join their high-performance design team.
- The role focuses on next-generation transceiver IPs targeting TSMC 3nm and other advanced technology nodes.
Responsibilities
- Perform block-level and top-level physical implementation including floorplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, and physical verification.
- Collaborate with RTL and STA teams to ensure clean handoffs and support timing, area, and power convergence.
- Apply advanced physical design techniques for multiple voltage and frequency domains, hierarchical design, and physical-aware synthesis.
- Conduct EM/IR analysis and power grid optimization.
- Perform congestion analysis and mitigation.
- Optimize clock skew and improve clock quality.
- Integrate IPs and top-level blocks with attention to physical interfaces, constraints, and timing alignment.
- Support floorplan development and chip partitioning for high-speed transceiver designs.
- Perform ECO implementation and assist with tapeout signoff activities.
- Ensure DRC, LVS, ANT, CELL, and ERC clean databases using industry-standard physical verification tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in physical design, preferably with advanced technology nodes.
- Strong experience with floorplanning, placement, CTS, routing, and IR drop mitigation.
- Experience with signoff checks such as DRC, LVS, ANT, and ERC, along with debugging.
- Experience with timing closure support in collaboration with STA teams.
- Hands-on use of tools such as Synopsys ICC2, Cadence Innovus, Calibre, and Voltus.
- Experience integrating high-speed IPs such as SerDes or PHYs into SoC or chiplet-based environments.
- Experience working on high-frequency datapath and DSP-related designs.
- Solid scripting skills for automation and productivity enhancement.
- Good problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Skills
- TSMC 3nm
- ICC2
- Innovus
- Voltus
- RedHawk
- Calibre
- Tcl
- Python
- Perl
- SerDes
- SoC
- DSP
