# Senior Staff Engineer, Physical Design (Floorplanning)

Hiring organization: [Samsung Semiconductor](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/samsung-semiconductor)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/45cc079b-a833-4bcb-aa56-77d0f51582b3

Listed on Samsung Semiconductor's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Austin, TX
- Salary: 180200 – 270400 USD per year

## Summary

Samsung is seeking a Senior Staff GPU Physical Design Engineer to lead floorplanning and power-grid implementation for next-generation high-performance GPU and system-level designs. This role suits experienced physical design engineers who can drive methodology innovation, mentor others, and deliver silicon across advanced technology nodes.

_Our summary, not Samsung Semiconductor's wording._

## Skills named

Clock Tree Synthesis, Perl, Python, Tcl

## Required

- 11+ years of experience (or 9+ years with Master's or 7+ years with Ph.D.)
- 7+ years of hands-on full physical design implementation flows
- Strong expertise in top-level floorplanning for GPU or SoC designs
- Power-grid design and implementation using PNR tools
- Power-grid robustness analysis experience
- Timing analysis and convergence methodologies
- Proficiency with industry-standard EDA tools (Synopsys or Cadence)
- Strong PNR and physical-design tool proficiency
- Scripting and automation skills in Python, Tcl, Shell, or Perl
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with data-driven approach
- Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills

## Nice to have

- Package and power-only layer experience
- Advanced-node designs (≤5nm) and high-performance GPU or SoC program experience
- DTCO methodologies and implementation scalability experience
- Low-power partitioning and congestion awareness
- Automation and flow-level methodology beyond scripting
- Floorplanning methodologies and physical-design tradeoff experience

Apply on Samsung Semiconductor's site: https://sec.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Samsung_Careers/job/3900-N-Capital-of-Texas-Hwy-Austin-TX-USA/Senior-Staff-Engineer--Physical-Design--Floorplanning-_R118776