Key Responsibilities

- Timing Closure Leadership: Deliver sign-off quality STA across complex, high-frequency designs, ensuring robust performance in diverse modes and corners.

- Customer Impact: Translate technical excellence into measurable outcomes for customers — faster turnaround, improved QoR, and optimized PPA trade-offs.

- Constraint Development: Architect and validate timing constraints to guarantee design reliability and seamless integration into customer workflows.

- Synthesis & Optimization: Own synthesis flows using Fusion Compiler and Design Compiler, achieving customer-defined targets for timing, area, and power.

- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with RTL, PD, and DFT teams to proactively resolve design challenges, ensuring smooth delivery for customer programs.

- AI-driven Design: Apply reinforcement learning tools (DSO.ai) to accelerate design space exploration, delivering innovative solutions that reduce cycle time.

- Low Power & UPF: Implement and verify UPF-based power intent, ensuring energy-efficient designs aligned with customer requirements.

- Formal Equivalence & ECOs:



Guarantee functional correctness through formal verification and ECO generation, enabling reliable customer tape-outs.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from reputed universities

- 7+ years of semiconductor design experience at leading companies

- Expertise in STA, synthesis, constraints, and low-power verification.

- Proficiency in industry-standard tools: PrimeTime, Fusion Compiler, Design Compiler, Formality, ICC2, Conformal, VCLP.

- Solid programming skills in TCL, Python, Perl, and Verilog.

- Deep understanding of advanced node challenges (cross talk, OCV, AOCV, POCV) and clock architectures.

What Sets You Apart

- Proven ability to deliver timing closure at cutting-edge nodes.

- Track record of driving customer success through technical innovation.

- Exposure to AI-driven optimization tools that redefine design efficiency.

- Strong communicator who bridges technical depth with customer priorities.

📌 STA Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 smartsoc solutions
📍 Bengaluru