Standard Cell Design & Characterization Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- Markham, Ontario, Canada
- Full-time · Senior
Seeking an experienced Standard Cell Design & Characterization Engineer to develop standard cell libraries, support third-party standard cell IP, and enable process characterization infrastructure for all AMD products.
Responsibilities
- Design, analyze, and optimize standard cell architectures to achieve performance, power, area, reliability, and manufacturability targets.
- Develop circuit-level solutions including transistor sizing, topology optimization, electrical debugging, and design tradeoff analysis.
- Drive characterization methodologies for timing, power, noise, variation, reliability, and electromigration modeling.
- Generate, validate, and release high-quality library deliverables including Liberty, CCS, LVF, LEF, OA, extracted netlists, and reliability views.
- Define characterization requirements, validation methodologies, quality metrics, and signoff criteria.
Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
- Nice to have: Experience with Synopsys PrimeLib
- Nice to have: Cadence Liberate
- Nice to have: Experience across multiple technology generations