Physical Design Engineer Intern (Toronto) at Astera LabsAstera Labs · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted: 2026-10-16

Skills: PythonPhysical Design Engineer Intern (Toronto) Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Employment type: Internship About Astera Labs Astera Labs develops purpose-built connectivity solutions for rack-scale AI infrastructure. Our Intelligent Connectivity Platform brings together high-performance connectivity technologies for AI, cloud, server, and networking systems. The role As a Physical Design Engineer Intern in Toronto, you will gain hands-on experience taking a digital-design block through the physical-design flow, from RTL handoff and synthesis through floorplanning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, timing closure, and signoff. You will read tool reports, debug flow issues, analyze power, performance, and area, and work with engineers across the ASIC implementation lifecycle. This internship is an opportunity to build practical VLSI and backend-design skills while learning how physical implementation decisions affect timing, congestion, power integrity, reliability, and manufacturability. What you’ll do Set up and run physical-design flow stages for a block using established methodologies and reproducible work areas. & …truncated… lt;h3 class="wnfdnti 1ibi0s33y 1ibi0s34u">Preferred qualifications Experience with synthesis, floorplanning, placement, clock-tree synthesis, routing, static timing analysis, or physical-verification tools. Familiarity with EDA tools such as Fusion or Genus, Innovus, PrimeTime, Calibre, Voltus, or equivalent tools. Understanding of PVT corners, OCV/AOCV/LVF, timing closure, congestion, power planning, EMIR, DRC, LVS, or antenna checks. Experience writing Tcl, Python, shell, or Make-based automation for design flows and report analysis. Familiarity with standard-cell libraries, LEF/DEF, Liberty files, SDC constraints, SPEF extraction, or PDK concepts. Interest in PPA optimization, reproducible flow infrastructure, and connectivity products used in AI, cloud, server, or networking systems. Equal opportunity Astera Labs is committed to an…Sign in to see the original postingBrowse more developer jobs on RoleBurst