Physical Design Engineer Intern - Software Engineering

The Programme

We are looking for a Physical Design Engineer Intern to help us grow our team.  
 
This is a unique opportunity to become our regular engineer after your degree graduation at the University.  
 
You will be responsible for ASIC physical design and implementation on our cutting edge ARMv8 based server on chip solutions that will be the backbone of future data centers.  
 
You will be interacting on a daily basis with our design team worldwide and will work on the latest technology nodes available in the industry.  
 
What the Physical Design Team wants you to know: 
 
Being a Physical Design Engineer, Intern at Ampere® is interesting, challenging, and will expand your professional breadth.  
 
You will learn how a world-class design team develop their microprocessor using Ampere® Arm®-based platform plus our in-house and 3rd party IP portfolio.  
 
Also, you will understand the pressure of being the team leader in the market, that push us to solve technical problems, and deliver products on time.  
 
The experience at Ampere® that you will possess will be valuable for your career path. 

What You Will Do

• Responsible for all aspects of physical design from RTL to GDS on sub-micron node, 7nm, 5nm or lower. 
• Develop physical design methodologies, flow customization/automation/optimization, synthesis, LEC, floor-planning, power/clock distribution, IP block assembly, place & route, and timing closure. 
• Implement top-level floorplan/pins partitioning, chip integration & assemble, power-planning and timing closure. 
• Work with packaging, power-grid designer to plan on bumps, power-grid distribution for multiple domains at the chip-level. 
• Perform power and noise analysis, RC extraction, LEC and physical verification at the block and chip-level.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Good understanding of microprocessor, CPU-based architecture. 
• Have some basic working knowledge of Semiconductor devices, VLSI designs, ASIC design flow, etc. 
• Familiar with at least one of scripting languages such as TCL, PERL, PYTHON. 
• Familiar with UNIX, C, Verilog, and Office applications. 
• Good logic thinking, debugging, problem solving and presentation skills. 
• Good communication skills in English and Vietnamese, and also teamwork skills. 

Education:

• Candidate must be pursuing a Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Physic Applied, Computer Engineering and Computer Science/ as 4th year Students with good GPA-above 7.5/10.0 or equivalent. 

About Us: 
 
Ampere is a modern semiconductor company designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first Cloud Native Processors.  
 
Built for the sustainable cloud with a modern 64-bit Arm server-based architecture, Ampere works with leading cloud service providers to enable them to accelerate the delivery of all cloud computing applications.  
 
With industry-leading cloud performance, power efficiency and scalability, Ampere processors are tailored for the continued growth of cloud and edge computing.