We are partnering with an innovative Zürich-based tech company who are seeking a motivated Senior IC Layout Engineer, who enjoys full-custom transistor-level design and wants to help shape advanced silicon across modern process nodes. This is a full-time permanently employed position.
If you love precision layout work, deep collaboration with design teams, and pushing PPA, yield, and reliability to the limit — this will be interesting. 👇
🔧 What you’ll be doing
This is a hands-on layout role with ownership from concept to tapeout.
Your daily work may include:
* ✏️ Creating full-custom layouts at both transistor and block level
* 🧩 Working on mixed-signal, custom-digital, and memory-adjacent layouts
* 🗺️ Planning floorplans and delivering DRC/LVS/PEX-clean designs on advanced nodes
* 📐 Applying precision analog layout techniques (matching, symmetry, shielding, guarding, etc.)
* ⚡ Bridging analog craft with modern FinFET/FDSOI rules and multi-patterning/EUV constraints
* 🤝 Collaborating closely with analog/custom designers, digital backend teams & verification engineers
* 🔁 Automating repetitive layout tasks using Python/Tcl (if you enjoy scripting)
* 📝 Maintaining guidelines, documentation & contributing to layout best practices
You will work on silicon that goes directly into cutting-edge compute architectures — impact is immediate and visible.
🌟 What you’ll bring
You don’t need experience with everything below, but the more you recognize, the better:
* 5+ years in custom IC layout covering analog, memory, or custom-digital blocks
* Experience delivering clean layouts on advanced nodes (sub-28nm, FinFET/FDSOI)
* Strong understanding of analog layout fundamentals:
* Current-mirror symmetry
* Matching & shielding
* Guard rings & substrate isolation
* Ability to work confidently with design & backend teams on extraction, timing, IR & EM topics
* Familiarity with modern layout verification flows (DRC, LVS, PEX)
* Good communication, structured documentation habits & a collaborative mindset
⭐ Bonus experience (nice to have but not required)
* Experience with SRAM periphery, redundancy or memory-adjacent layouts
* Knowledge of scan/MBIST routing or macro-level integration
* Exposure to DFM/DFY, ESD/latch-up, or EM/IR reliability checks
* Scripting experience in Tcl or Python for automation
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