Arm
Staff Implementation Engineer
$198K–$268K
Austin, Texas · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of hands-on ASIC Physical Build / Implementation experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, meaningful professional experience, or Master's degree, along with comparable practical experience, in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Leads end-to-end physical implementation of complex processor, GPU, interconnect, and SoC designs from RTL through GDSII and tapeout.
What you'll do
- Own implementation and drive timing, physical, power-integrity, and signoff closure across tapeout builds.
- Partner with RTL, architecture, and DFT teams to translate requirements into implementation targets and resolve design issues.
- Improve implementation methodologies, automation, and flows; identify risks and drive them to resolution.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of hands-on ASIC Physical Build / Implementation experience, including ownership of complex RTL-to-GDSII builds and successful tapeout.
- Hands-on expertise across the implementation lifecycle, including synthesis, floorplanning, PDN planning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, and optimization.
- Strong knowledge of MCMM timing closure, timing constraints, clocking, OCV, crosstalk/SI, and low-power implementation.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Tcl, Python, Perl, shell and/or Make.
Nice to have
- Experience implementing high-performance Arm CPUs, GPUs, coherent interconnects, or complex SoCs.
- Experience with advanced process nodes, hierarchical physical design, complex clock methodologies, or working with foundries and EDA vendors.
Pay
USD $198,100-$268,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Tcl, Python, Perl, shell, Make, UPF
AI focus
The role does not involve AI work; the posting permits AI for application preparation but prohibits using it to complete assessment tasks.
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