
Silicon Packaging Engineer
Required skills
- Signal Integrity
- Power Integrity
- SI/PI
- chip-package-system co-design
- AI accelerator
- high-performance computing
- silicon interposer
- RDL fan-out
- wafer-on-wafer die stacking
- high-density organic substrates
Nice to have
- Electrical Engineering
- Physics
- Mathematics
- MIPI
- USB
- consumer hardware design
Role summary
Seeking a Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (SI/PI) Engineer to lead chip-package-system co-design for next-generation AI accelerators and HPC silicon. This role involves driving SI/PI requirements across 2.5D/3D heterogeneous packages, optimizing interfaces like HBM and PCIe, and performing PDN analysis. Responsibilities include pre- and post-layout simulation, developing methodologies, and conducting post-silicon validation. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams and engage with foundry/OSAT partners to ensure high-speed interfaces and power delivery meet performance and reliability targets. Requires 8+ years of experience in SI/PI analysis, simulation, and measurement, with proficiency in tools like HFSS and Sigrity.
Responsibilities
- Chip-Package-System Co-Design: Drive SI/PI requirements analysis and optimization into product definition — chip floorplan, bump map, power tree structure, and net topology — for HPC and AI silicon built on 2.5D/3D package technology.
- Die-Package-Board Co-Optimization (DPCO): Partner with package layout and physical design to converge bump assignment, escape routing, and stack-up decisions across multiple disparate chiplets.
- Package SI/PI Ownership: Lead ASIC package SI/PI design activities including substrate and interposer stack-up and material selection, design guide authoring, layout review, and post-layout sign-off.
- High-Speed Interfaces: Own channel design and margining for HBM/HBM4/UHBM, UCIe and other die-to-die links, PCIe Gen 5/Gen 6, Ethernet SerDes, and next-generation memory interfaces.
- Power Delivery: Execute package and board PDN AC+DC analysis for low-voltage/high-current supplies, including impedance targeting, decoupling optimization, IR drop, and di/dt noise.
- Simulation Flow: Lead pre-layout and post-layout simulation flows for high-speed I/O and PDN; build simulation models and develop reusable SI/PI methodology.
- Timing & Budgets: Develop and maintain interface timing budgets and voltage/noise budgets spanning silicon IO PHY, package, and board.
- Tool & Flow Development: Improve the accuracy and turnaround time of SI/PI flows through automation and correlation-driven model refinement.
- Validation Methodology: Define SI/PI validation methodology and detailed engineering test plans.
- Post-Silicon: Conduct post-silicon validation and qualification of high-speed interfaces; measure PDN impedance and channel performance in the lab and correlate against simulation.
- Failure Analysis: Support Design Validation teams on SI/PI failure analysis and drive corrective design guidance back into the flow.
- Work across Architecture, ASIC, Mixed Signal, Package, PCB, and System teams to ensure package and system SI/PI performance meets expectation before Gerber out.
- Engage foundries and OSATs (e.g., TSMC CoWoS/SoIC, Intel EMIB) and memory suppliers on emerging interconnect and die-stacking standards.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience with signal integrity analysis, simulation, and measurement
- Proficient with HFSS, Sigrity, Hspice, and/or other simulation tools
- Proven understanding of impedance control, transmission line and PDN characterization, feasibility study and create practical design guidelines
- Experience with 2.5D/3D package design (e.g., silicon interposer, silicon bridge, 3D die stacking, STA, Voltage budget, complex SIPI models, frequency, and time domain simulation)
- Expertise in signal and power integrity for various high speed interconnects (e.g., HBMx, D2D, Ethernet, PCIe and etc)
- Familiarity with post-Si test environment on memory (HBM/ /DDR4/LPDDR4/DDR5/LPDDR5) or high speed SERDES
- Familiarity to next generation memory and chiplet standards and timing budget methodology
- Package-level signal integrity and power integrity understanding including silicon, package, and board
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in SIPI simulation and validation areas
- Master degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or related field
- Experience with high-speed interface protocols such as MIPI, PCIe, memory, HBMand USB
- Experience using Cadence Sigrity, PowerSI, Ansys SIwave, Keysight ADS, 3D layout and Ansys HFSS
- Experience with consumer hardware design, review and bring-up process, CAD tools, constraint manager etc
- 8+ years of experience in SIPI fundamentals, familiar with substrate/PCB design and manufacture process
- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including chip top design, physical design, Static Timing Analysis (STA), package, and system teams
- Solid understanding and experiences in computational electromagnetics and transmission line theory
$178,000/year to $250,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
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