Senior Layout Engineer (Memory / Mixed-Signal SoC)
Location: Mesa, Arizona
Pay:
$120,000.00 - $170,000.00 per year
Job description:
Numem is a California- and Arizona-based company that transforms next-generation memory technologies to power AI applications at the edge and data center. Our solutions deliver ultra-low latency, low power, and optimized density to meet the performance demands of modern AI workloads. We specialize in advancing founder-based MRAM technologies, enhanced through state-of-the-art innovations in design, sense, power efficiency, and performance optimization, enabling a broad range of applications across edge and data-center environments
Mesa, Arizona Site Preferred
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Layout Engineer to lead physical implementation of a complex memory-centric mixed-signal chip through multiple tapeout milestones. The role includes hands-on full-custom layout, block integration, and top-level assembly spanning memory arrays, analog/mixed-signal blocks, digital logic, place-and-route, and IO/ESD structures. You will partner with Memory, Analog, and Digital Design teams to ensure layout quality, reliability, performance, and manufacturability across foundry signoff requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead full-custom layout for memory, analog/mixed-signal, and mixed-voltage interface circuitry.
- Integrate and assemble top-level chip/block hierarchies including memory macros, analog slices, digital logic, and IO/ESD.
- Drive floorplanning, power-grid planning, shielding, and critical routing strategies for performance and noise robustness.
- Coordinate with digital P&R teams and ensure clean handoff between custom and P&R regions (boundaries, pins, blockages).
- Own layout signoff readiness: DRC/LVS, density/fill, antenna, EM/IR, ESD, and reliability checks.
- Work closely with design engineers to interpret constraints (matching, symmetry, device orientation, guardringing).
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of hands-on IC layout experience with multiple successful tapeouts (memory or mixed-signal preferred).
- Demonstrated experience leading block-level and top-level integration including custom + P&R + IO/ESD domains.
- Must be knowledgeable of basic layout and design tools
- Strong understanding of layout-dependent effects and analog layout fundamentals (matching, parasitics, shielding, guard rings).
- Experience with multi-voltage domains, isolation techniques, and reliable power routing methodologies.
- Expertise running and debugging signoff flows: DRC/LVS, parasitic extraction, EM/IR, antenna, and reliability checks.
- Ability to communicate effectively with Memory, Analog, and Digital design teams and drive closure on layout issues.
Tools & Environment
- Cadence: Virtuoso Layout Suite / Custom Compiler equivalents; familiarity with OA libraries and hierarchical flows.
- Synopsys: Custom Compiler / ICC2 or equivalent digital implementation tools; ability to collaborate with P&R teams.
- Verification/Signoff: Calibre or equivalent DRC/LVS/PERC; extraction and post-layout simulation workflows.
- Automation: TCL/Python/Shell scripting to automate layout tasks, checks, pinlist generation, and QA.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating memory arrays/macros with shared analog and IO infrastructure.
- Familiarity with ESD methodology and IO ring integration constraints.
- Experience with high-density routing, noise isolation, and substrate coupling mitigation.
- Comfortable mentoring junior layout engineers and driving quality checklists.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
