Physical Design Engineer

Job description

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is seeking a Physical Design Engineer with a broad, versatile skillset to join our growing Hardware team. In this role, you will help deliver performance-critical ASICs and advance our physical design methodologies on leading-edge process nodes. The Hardware team at HRT builds high-performance compute engines using FPGA and ASIC technology to drive low-latency trading decisions on global markets. We create custom solutions across the full spectrum of speed and sophistication, from bespoke circuits to world-class machine learning accelerators. Responsibilities: - Drive design-for-test (DFT) methodologies and implementation - Contribute to physical implementation, from RTL handoff through GDSII on advanced process nodes - Partner on floorplanning and physical optimization for high-performance, latency-critical designs - Close timing across multiple modes and corners while optimizing power, performance, and area (PPA) - Diagnose and resolve physical design issues such as timing bottlenecks, congestion, and IR/EM violations - Build, maintain, and improve repeatable, automated physical design flows - Develop scripts and tooling to improve productivity, robustn...