Standard Cell Design & Characterization Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- Markham, Ontario, Canada
- On-site
- Full-time · Staff
Seeking an experienced Standard Cell Design & Characterization Engineer to join the department responsible for developing standard cell libraries, supporting third-party standard cell IP, and enabling process characterization infrastructure for all AMD products.
Responsibilities
- Design, analyze, and optimize standard cell architectures to achieve performance, power, area, reliability, and manufacturability targets in advanced semiconductor technologies.
- Develop circuit-level solutions including transistor sizing, topology optimization, electrical debugging, and design tradeoff analysis for standard cell libraries.
- Drive characterization methodologies for timing, power, noise, variation, reliability, and electromigration modeling using industry-standard tools such as Synopsys PrimeLib and Cadence Liberate.
- Generate, validate, and release high-quality library deliverables including Liberty, CCS, LVF, LEF, OA, extracted netlists, and reliability views required for implementation and signoff flows.
- Define characterization requirements, validation methodologies, quality metrics, and signoff criteria to ensure accurate, robust, and silicon-correlated models.
Requirements
- Bachelors in Electrical Engineering
- Masters in Electrical Engineering
- Bachelors in Computer Science
- Masters in Computer Science
- Nice to have: Experience across multiple technology generations