Member of Technical Staff Physical Design - PnR (Place and Route) Engineer
SWIR Vision Systems
IT, Design
Allen, TX, USA
Posted on Sep 23, 2025
Member of Technical Staff Physical Design - PnR (Place and Route) Engineer
Allen, TX, United States
Job Description
onsemi is seeking an energetic, motivated professional to join their product development team located in Richardson, Texas. You will join a cohesive group of experienced designers with a wide range of industry experience who cultivate a “customer first” culture and friendly working environment. Projects will require you to work with cross-functional teams comprised of logic and IP design, physical implementation, packaging, test, and product engineering.
Responsibilities
As a Member of Technical Staff Physical Design / PnR (Place and Route) Engineer, you will design custom ASSPs and ASICs with tasks spanning design concept to chip tape-out. Responsibilities include:
- As a Member of Technical Staff Physical Design / PnR (Place and Route) Engineer, you are responsible for Physical Design tasks at block, subsystem, sub-chip, and/or full-chip levels. The tasks include Floorplanning, Placement, CTS and custom clocking, Routing, Formal Equivalency, Power Efficiency, IR-Drop, and EM. You may also be involved in Physical Design flow development/automation and evaluation of and recommendations for technology, IP, and vendor selection.
- Analog block integration, including noise isolation for hard-macros, pads, quiet power/ground supplies, and custom analog routes
- Static Timing Analysis related activities (constraint development, parasitic extraction, sign-off requirements)
- SPF Extraction supporting tools such as Cadence Quantis, or Siemens PEX
- Physical Verification (DRC/LVS/DFM, chip finishing)
- Work with limited direction, have keen attention to detail, and provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks on each program to the management team. Occasional travel may be required.
As a Member of Technical Staff Physical Design / PnR (Place and Route) Engineer, your responsibilities include technical leadership, project planning, and resource management. You will collaborate to find solutions for problems that occur during the design process and communicate directly with internal and external customers on design status and technical implementation. You will mentor junior engineers and provide training and guidance for a variety of design tasks while maintaining a growth mindset with regard to your own professional development.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- PhD, MS or BS in Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering
- 10+ years of direct design experience in custom IC flows as a physical design engineer
- In depth knowledge of hierarchical and low power design techniques.
- Knowledge of CMOS devices, circuit design, layout, and verification
- Experience with synthesis, interfacing with RTL and implementation designers to achieve better quality of results.
- Experience qualifying vendor tools and internally developed software releases
- Proficiency in scripting with languages such as Tcl, Python, and Perl
- Familiarity with software and editing tasks in a Linux operating system environment
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
- The ability to work independently and on a team while interfacing with team members located all over the world.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge and experience in vetting and deploying sophisticated EDA software flows
- Hands-on experience with FinFET technologies
- Mixed-signal physical design experience
‘Employment at onsemi is contingent on providing verification of work authorization and verification of U.S. Person status (i.e., U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and other protected individuals under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) or obtaining any necessary license for roles requiring access to hardware, software, services, or technical data controlled by U.S. export control laws and regulations’
About Us
onsemi (Nasdaq: ON) is driving disruptive innovations to help build a better future. With a focus on automotive and industrial end-markets, the company is accelerating change in megatrends such as vehicle electrification and safety, sustainable energy grids, industrial automation, and 5G and cloud infrastructure. With a highly differentiated and innovative product portfolio, onsemi creates intelligent power and sensing technologies that solve the world’s most complex challenges and leads the way in creating a safer, cleaner, and smarter world.
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About the Team
We are committed to sourcing, attracting, and hiring high-performance innovators, while providing all candidates a positive recruitment experience that builds our brand as a great place to work.
onsemi is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. The Company maintains policies and practices that are designed to prevent discrimination or harassment against any qualified applicant or employee to the extent prohibited by federal, state and local laws and regulations. By way of example, discrimination on the basis of race (actual or perceived), ethnicity, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law is prohibited.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are limited in the ability or unable to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, you may contact Talent.acquisition@onsemi.com for assistance.
Job Info
- Job Identification 2500775
- Job Category Engineering
- Posting Date 09/22/2025, 10:22 PM
- Degree Level Bachelors
- Job Schedule Full time
- Job Shift Day
- Locations 505 Millennium Drive, Allen, TX, 75013, US