Member of Technical Staff - Physical Design
About Architect Labs
Architect is a frontier AI lab for custom silicon. We partner with frontier labs, clouds / neoclouds, physical AI companies, OEMs and advanced fabs to tape-out custom chips co-designed for next-generation AI workloads. Our goal is to compress end-to-end software to silicon timelines, and maximize intelligence per watt and per dollar for the world. We are a small exceptional team across silicon, systems, software and frontier AI. Our team have led research teams at nearly every frontier AI lab, and at some of the most complex SoCs in the world.
What You'll Do
As our first Physical Design engineer, you'll build the PD function from scratch and extend our AI system from spec-to-netlist to tapeout-ready GDS. You'll own the methodology and hands-on execution for physical implementation at 3nm, 2nm, and future leading-edge nodes.
Build the methodology: Establish and qualify the complete netlist-to-GDS flow, including PDKs, libraries, tools, constraints, automation, and reproducible regression infrastructure.
Own implementation: Personally drive block and full-chip floorplanning, power planning, placement, clock tree synthesis, routing, and ECOs to meet demanding PPA targets.
