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Senior Power Integrity Engineer

Hybrid in Barcelona·Added 27 days ago (last checked 3 Nov)

Semidynamics

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Hybrid, Barcelona
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Experience
8+ years

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Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years in power integrity for high-speed digital systems, including package-level PDN work

  • Hands-on with PDN extraction and simulation tools - Ansys SIwave/HFSS, Cadence Sigrity/Clarity or equivalent

  • Real experience with DC IR, target impedance, transient droop and decap optimisation on a high-current rail

  • Working knowledge of chip power models and how to apply workload current profiles

  • Comfortable reading a package substrate stackup and bump map, and reasoning about plane, via and cavity behaviour

  • Python scripting for automation and post-processing

Nice to have

  • 2.5D, interposer, chiplet or advanced substrate PDN co-design

  • PDN impedance measurement and on-die margin or droop telemetry correlation

  • Electro-thermal co-simulation with the thermal team

  • Familiarity with OCP rack-scale platforms and high-current delivery architectures

  • Automated or AI-assisted engineering flows - PyAEDT, scikit-rf or similar

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • Competitive package.

The role

You will own the power distribution network from voltage regulator output to die bump - impedance, IR drop, droop and decoupling across package and board. Senior IC role: you own the PDN numbers that power delivery, SI and the package team design against.

What you'll do

  • PDN design and closure for a multi-die AI accelerator package

  • DC IR, AC impedance, transient droop and electro-thermal analysis across die, package and board

  • Decoupling strategy and optimisation across on-die, package and board tiers

  • Package-board anti-resonance identification and mitigation

  • PDN noise to jitter translation, closed back into the SI budget

  • Analysis & closure: Build and close DC IR, electro-thermal, AC impedance and transient PDN analysis from VR output through package to die bump. Set target impedance per rail and hold the design to it.

  • Chip power models: Work with CPM and workload current profiles to size on-die, package and board decoupling, and to predict droop across all three droop timescales.

  • Resonance & mitigation: Identify package-board anti-resonance and cavity behaviour, and drive the plane, via and decap changes that mitigate it.

  • SI coupling: Translate PDN noise into jitter through PHY supply sensitivity, and feed the result back into the channel budget.

  • Vendor & validation: Drive CPM and model requirements with IP, PHY and package vendors. Correlate against PDN impedance measurement and on-die droop telemetry, and support bring-up and power debug.

How you'll work

  • 4 days per week in the Barcelona office (city center), 1 day WFH.

  • 1 week of work from everywhere in the world.

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About the company & team

  • Work for one of Europe's most promising deep-tech semiconductor scale-ups.

  • Accelerated development path.

  • A collaborative, technical, and growth-oriented environment that values direct ownership and clear thinking.

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