SmartSoC, a Virtusa Company , is a leading semiconductor engineering services organization specializing in end-to-end ASIC, SoC, FPGA, Embedded Systems, and VLSI design solutions. Backed by Virtusa's global engineering capabilities, SmartSoC partners with leading semiconductor companies to deliver innovative, high-quality silicon solutions across the entire chip development lifecycle.

Looking For : STA Lead

Work Location: Bangalore

Experience: 6+ Years

Availability: Immediate or currently serving notice candidates is preffered

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.

📌 Senior Physical Design Engineer (Bangalore Metropolitan Area)
🏢 smartsoc solutions
📍 Bangalore Metropolitan Area