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Position Summary

Role and Responsibilities

As a Senior Physical Design Floorplan Engineer, you will play a key role in creating and optimizing toplevel floorplans that enable efficient physicaldesign execution for SARC/ACL premium IPs. This highly visible position requires close collaboration with crossfunctional design teams, EDA partners, and intrafunctional groups. You will contribute strong problemsolving skills and a deep understanding of floorplanning challenges and bestpractice methodologies, ensuring robust, highperformance, and lowpower implementations across Samsung's premium mobile device tiers.

Key responsibilities include:

• You are a key contributor for the toplevel floorplan, driving blocklevel floorplanning and execution

• You execute and deliver key floorplanning activities (placement, shaping, pinning, methodology) with productiongrade quality

• You drive the critical PPA aspects of floorplanning by collaborating with the Architecture, RTL, PPA, and Physical Design teams

• You work with the CAD team to continuously improve the floorplanning design methodology

• You lead the physicalverification convergence of the toplevel floorplan to achieve final GDS delivery

Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience of professional experience with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/relevant technical field, or 3+ years of experience with a Master's degree, or 1+ years of experience with a PhD

• Skilled in EDA flows and methodologies and industry standards pertaining to Floor-planning

• Highly proficient in Top and Block level Floor-planning techniques including partitioning, pinning, and budgeting

• Experience with power-grid implementation and clock distribution

• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, TCL, Shell, or Perl

• Hands on experience in delivering final GDS for high-performance IPs and SOCs

Preferred candidate will possess the following:

• Strong understanding of sign-off closure flows in deep-submicron technology in the domains of physical verification, STA, EMIR, and Power

Our Team

The Advanced Design Technology and Design Implementation teams play a critical role in driving technology development across Samsung System LSI business. Operating at the intersection of design technology and physical implementation, we engage with Foundry partners from early-phase technology exploration through the full design lifecycle. Our teams span advanced design process and methodology development, GPU physical design and implementation, CAD, and DTCO-accelerating adoption of advanced technology nodes and enabling market-differentiating power, performance, and area (PPA), silicon reliability, and design turnaround time for GPU and system-level IP solutions.

You will join a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment working across parallel development cycles with direct impact on consumer technologies used worldwide. Here, you'll help build what's next: experimenting with new ideas, broadening your technical expertise, and solving impactful challenges alongside talented teammates who value ownership, continuous learning, and growth.

Total Rewards

At Samsung - SARC/ACL, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $124,000 and $208,400. Your actual base pay will depend on variables that may include your education skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.

Samsung employees have access to benefits including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), onsite lunch, employee purchase program, tuition assistance (after 6 months), paid time off, student loan program, wellness incentives, and many more. In addition, regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) are eligible for MBO bonus compensation, based on company, division, and individual performance.

Additionally, this role might be eligible to participate in long term incentive plan and relocation.

This is an exempt position, which is not eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

U.S. Export Control

This position requires the ability to access information subject to U.S. export control restrictions. Applicants must have the ability to access export-controlled information or be eligible to receive a government authorization to access export-controlled information.

Trade Secrets

By submitting an application, you [applicant] agree[s] not to disclose to Samsung, or induce Samsung to use, any confidential or proprietary information (including trade secrets) belonging to any current or previous employer or other person or entity.

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