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Company
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, TSMC
Location
Taiwan
Job Category
IC Design Technology
Job Type
Engineer / Admin
Employment Type
Regular
Posted
Aug 03, 2023
Established in 1987 and headquartered in Taiwan, TSMC pioneered the pure-play foundry business model with an exclusive focus on manufacturing its customers’ products. In 2023, the company served 528 customers with 11,895 products for high performance computing, smartphones, IoT, automotive, and consumer electronics, and is the world’s largest provider of logic ICs with annual capacity of 16 million 12-inch equivalent wafers. TSMC operates fabs in Taiwan as well as manufacturing subsidiaries in Washington State, Japan and China, and its ESMC subsidiary plans to begin construction on a fab in Germany in 2024. In Arizona, TSMC is building three fabs, with the first starting 4nm production in 2025, the second by 2028, and the third by the end of the decade.

In R&D, Design and Technology Platform (DTP) provides differentiated and world-leading design solutions to enable the implementation of System on Chip (SoC) for leading AI/HPC, communication, automotive and IoT applications on TSMC's diverse silicon and packaging technology platform. We work with the world's leading SoC design teams and ecosystem experts to promote industry-leading process design kits (PDKs) and reusable design blocks for the semiconductor intellectual property core (IP), including standard cell libraries, embedded memory, general-purpose input/output (GPIO), simulation and interface IP, as well as electronic design automation (EDA) tools and design flows for monolithic SoCs and heterogeneous 3DICs. This allows us to accelerate the process of transforming innovation into silicon chips and creating revolutionary changes in daily life!
Job Responsibilities
Electrical RC and Electromagnetic tool related work:

1. Work with TCAD, device and model team to simulate electrical phenomenon by 3D Quasi-Static field solvers or 3D Full-Wave Electromagnetic (EM) field solvers to come out device parasitic RC, interconnect parasitic RCLK (R: resistance, C: capacitance, L: self-inductance, K: mutual-inductance) network or passive device S-parameter/sub-circuit models for digital transient and high speed/frequency circuit simulations.
2. Collaborate with EDA partners to enable required features and target accuracy for RC extraction tools.
3. Develop RC collaterals to meet customers’ tape-out requirements.
4. Analyze RC accuracy issues, perform process and performance impact analysis, and provide novel and effective solutions.

RC software related work:

1. RC extraction utility development from LVS database handling, pattern matching to final RC netlist.
2. Define software architecture, specification, algorithms, and functions for future extensions on novel device structures.
3. Software pseudocode and final coding development and maintenance.
4. Interface definition and development among TSMC RC utility and EDA RC tools.
5. Build regression and QA system.
Job Qualifications
 1. Master's degree or a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Electrical Engineer related to parasitic RC extraction, e.g., StarRC/QRC/xACT, QuickCap/QRCFS, or HFSS/EMX/PeakView, with solid background in CAD tool development, RCLK model development, RCLK application engineering, or CAD flow development.
2. Have scripting/programming skills in C-SHELL, Perl, and C++.
3. Very strong software experience but with less RCLK experience is also welcome.

Personal Attributes：

1. Aggressive, self-motivated, and passionate in learning and problem solving.
2. Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
3. Understand and honor teamwork values.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) reflects TSMC’s core values and business philosophy and is essential for our future success. Our commitment to DE&I allows us to create an environment where every employee, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, political affiliation, or sexual orientation, can bring their unique perspective and experiences to work, enabling us to drive profitability, increase productivity, and unleash innovation. To strive to create a workplace that is equitable and accessible to all employees, we also provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture where every employee feels valued and empowered to contribute to our mission and provide excellent service to our global customers.