Senior Design Engineer, Standard Cell

Job ID 2025-16327

Date posted Dec. 22, 2025

Location Bengaluru, India

Category Design Engineering

Job Overview:

Our Solutions Engineering Physical IP team comprises some of the industry’s leading experts in deep submicron circuit design. This position is a wonderful opportunity for you to work with our custom standard cell design engineering team on innovative technologies. Your work will have a significant lasting impact as the designs will be used in Solutions Engineering products servicing the infrastructure, client, automotive, and IoT market segments.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for the development of Arm custom standard cells in the latest, sub-3nm process technology nodes. You will work as part of a team that co-optimizes the circuit design with physical design engineers to improve the PPA of Arm cores that will be integrated into best-in-class SoCs.

You will work in close collaboration with the mask design team to provide optimally tuned layout, characterize and model all standard library views, and validate them through QA flows that use a variety of EDA tools.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant circuit design experience (for BSEE)
• 4+ years of relevant circuit design experience (for MSEE)
• Significant experience in the identification, design and verification of cells specifically targeted to improve core and SoC level PPA
• In-depth understanding of MOSFET electrical characteristics, transistor level device physics, PPA tradeoffs, layout and variability especially at 3nm and below technology nodes
• Expertise in transistor level design of static circuits including state retaining elements such as latches and flops
• Hands-on development of standard cell EDA view characterization, modeling and QA
• Experience with standard cell characterization tools and Spice circuit simulators
• Proficient in scripting languages such as Perl or Python
• Ability and willingness to proactively support the development of others
• Be willing to iteratively improve designs and repeatedly attempt to develop solutions to difficult problems
• Ability to analyze data and present conclusions effectively

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Ability to lead a team of engineers through project management, delegation, and communication of risks and issues to engineering management
• Exposure to physical design implementation flow and signoff

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