Physical Design Engineer

ENTRY LEVEL - Bachelor's degree with up to 2 years experience or a recent Master's degree with no experience.

 

The Physical Design engineer will be responsible for executing end-to-end digital physical design activities—from RTL or netlist input through final GDSII—ensuring high-quality, high-performance, and manufacturable digital blocks and subsystems. The role requires strong expertise in synthesis, floorplanning, place & route (P\&R), timing closure, power integrity, extraction, verification, and tape-out preparation.

You will collaborate closely with digital/analog design and CAD/PDK teams, verification, and program management to deliver robust silicon on schedule.

Key Responsibilities

· Perform fully digital physical layout design including: Floor planning, power planning, place and route, physical verification and sign-off flows, Extraction, STA, EM/IR analysis, and reliability checks.

· Perform logic synthesis meeting timing, area, and power targets, Debug and resolve timing violations through logic restructuring, Implement functional ECOs.

· Work closely with front-end RTL designers, analog/mixed-signal layout teams, and verification engineers to ensure seamless integration of digital components.

· Participate in floor planning reviews, physical sign-off reviews, and tape-out readiness assessments.

· Bachelor’s /Master’s degree in electrical and computer Engineering, or related field.

· 3+ years experience in ASIC digital physical design implementation (including internships and hands on practical academic assignments).

· Strong understanding of digital and analog IC fundamentals, standard-cell architecture, timing, power, and signal-integrity principles.

· Proficient in using EDA tools like: Innovus, Synthesis tools, STA tools, Extraction and sign-off tools (Voltus, Quantus, Calibre, or similar).

· Custom analog layout experience is an asset.

· Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

· Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

This posting is for a new vacancy.  The expected annual pay range for this position is $82,500 - $105,000/year. This position is also eligible for bonus opportunities and commission pay.  Please note that the final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate. 

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.

 

With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

Renesas Electronics Canada Ltd. (“Renesas Canada”) is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, creed or religion, age, sex (including gender and pregnancy), sexual orientation, marital or civil status, same-sex partnership status, family status, disability and any other characteristic protected by law. Renesas is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Export Control Compliance Condition

Renesas Canada must at all times comply with U.S. and Canadian export control legislative requirements. Current U.S. export control laws require that Renesas Canada obtain a U.S. government export license prior to employing persons in positions with access to certain technology. All positions at Renesas Canada have direct or indirect access to this technology.   As a result, it is necessary for Renesas Canada to determine if it would need an export license for new employees. To do so, we ask all candidates for employment whether their most recent country of citizenship or permanent residence is one of the countries specified in the export controls laws or regulations.

Renesas recognizes that you are entitled to human rights and privacy protections in the workplace and takes these obligations seriously. As such, we want you to know that your decision to complete the export control questions is entirely voluntary. Regrettably, should you choose not to complete these questions, we cannot consider you for employment because doing so would jeopardize our ability to comply with the applicable export controls laws. Should you choose to complete the questions, we will use the information collected only to determine if we would need an export license to employ you and not for any other purpose. 

Successful candidates must be eligible to meet the requirements of U.S. export control regulations, including (if applicable) the issuance of any required export license prior to starting employment at Renesas Canada. The decision whether to or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas Canada.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.