Physical Design Engineer - Backend

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Seoul, South KoreaPosted 7 months ago

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Market pay check

Matched to Computer systems and software professionals

Source: Ministry of Employment and Labor wage information system (wage.go.kr), wage distribution by occupation.

What you'd do

Implement physical design (RTL to GDS) to achieve optimal power,performance,area metrics.
Execute floorplanning and powerplanning including hard-macro placement decisions.
Optimize block partitioning to reduce turn-around-time and improve quality.

What they want

Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
Minimum 8 years experience with EDA tool workflows in semiconductor environment.
Proficiency in scripting languages (Tcl,Perl,Python) for workflow automation.

Nice to have

Experience extracting design parameters and summarizing quality-of-result metrics.
Demonstrated ability to analyze QoR trends and propose improvements.

Seoulstart's read

Visa tier (likely): E-7 specialty / professional (likely)
Korean language: Korean not required

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English friendliness

High: JD in English, foreign-friendly signals

Context

Rebellions is a Korean AI chip startup in semiconductor design; E-7 visa sponsor with typical Seoul-based tech-company structure; 8+ years experience likely implies senior role,visa sponsorship straightforward.

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