Standard Cell Design & Characterization Engineer
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- Markham, Ontario, Canada
Design and characterize standard cell libraries for advanced semiconductor technologies.
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
- Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering
- Bachelor's in Computer Science
- Master's in Electrical Engineering
- Master's in Computer Science
- Nice to have: experience across multiple technology generations