ASIC Implementation Specialist

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Company

Research-driven trading firm developing proprietary systems and algorithms using quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering for global markets.

What you will do

• Own ASIC blocks across the RTL-to-GDSII back-end flow, including synthesis, floorplanning, clock-tree synthesis, timing optimization, and signoff.
• Design floorplans and power grids, making decisions on macro and pin placement, area budgets, and clock-tree optimization.
• Drive static timing analysis and timing closure for high-performance designs, including development and validation of SDC constraints.
• Prepare designs for signoff through power integrity analysis, physical verification, logic equivalence checking, and engineering change orders.
• Improve implementation flows by developing automation and scripts, and use implementation insights to influence RTL design.
• Collaborate with RTL design, DFT, packaging, and foundry teams; contribute through design reviews and documentation.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 7+ years of ASIC implementation experience with multiple successful tapeouts.
• Strong experience in physical implementation and signoff, including floorplanning, clock-tree synthesis, static timing analysis, timing closure, and physical verification.
• Hands-on experience with Cadence and Siemens implementation and signoff tools.
• Strong understanding of CMOS, RC-parasitic extraction, and physical design formats and constraints.
• Experience with low-power design flows and awareness of design-for-test requirements.
• Experience with advanced FinFET nodes, including 16, 12, 7, or 5 nm.

Nice to have

• Experience with custom macro integration.
• Knowledge of package/PCB co-design, chiplets, or 2.5D/3D integration.
• Exposure to machine-learning-driven implementation flows.
• RTL coding ability and functional verification experience.
• Synthesis and DFT experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on greenfield projects spanning cutting-edge research and production-scale implementations.
• Contribute to ASIC technology supporting trading systems over the next decade.
• Work in a research-driven environment combining quantitative modeling, machine learning, engineering, and real-time feedback.