At least 10 years of experience in physical design, including a track record on microprocessor or complex ASIC designs.
Deep expertise in static timing analysis, place and route, and power analysis.
Understanding of RISC architectures and CPU microarchitecture.
Experience with SystemC or architecture-level modelling.
Experience with multiple tapeouts on advanced nodes.
Responsibilities
Define physical design architecture and methodology for microprocessor and ASIC projects.
Drive early floorplan, partitioning, and power-planning decisions.
Set static timing analysis and timing-closure strategy across blocks and the full chip.
Lead power analysis and PPA exploration with architecture and RTL teams.
Guide place and route strategy and review implementation quality.
Use SystemC and architecture models to assess the physical impact of design choices, including RISC-based cores.
Mentor physical design engineers and lead technical reviews.
Physical Design Architect
Envision Employment Solutions · New Cairo City, Egypt · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-27
Workplace: on_site
Department: Semiconductor Engineering
Description
Envision Employment Solutionsis currently looking for aPhysical Design Architectfor one of our partners, an IT Services and IT Consulting company.
THE ROLE
You'll set the physical design strategy for high performance processor and ASIC designs, making the early decisions that decide whether PPA targets are reachable at all. This is an architect's role with deep implementation roots, for someone who has closed timing, planned power and then stepped up to shape the approach for the whole chip.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Define the physical design architecture and methodology for microprocessor and ASIC projects
Drive early floorplan, partitioning and power planning decisions
Set the STA and timing closure strategy across blocks and full chip
Lead power analysis and PPA exploration with architecture and RTL teams
Guide place and route strategy and review implementation quality
Use SystemC and architecture models to assess the physical impact of design choices, including RISC based cores
Mentor physical design engineers and lead technical reviews
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
10+ years of experience in physical design, with a track record on microprocessor or complex ASIC designs
Deep expertise in STA, place and route and power analysis
Understanding of RISC architectures and CPU microarchitecture
Experience with SystemC or architecture level modelling
Multiple tapeouts on advanced nodes
Strong technical leadership and communication skills
YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF YOU
You'd rather make the right call early than fix it late
You understand CPU architecture well enough to challenge it on physical grounds
You enjoy guiding engineers as much as solving problems yourself
You think in PPA trade offs from day one
You want your methodology to become the team standard