Description

Senior STA and Synthesis Engineer / STA Lead - Texas Instruments

About the Role: Join Texas Instruments' Connectivity engineering team as a Senior STA and Synthesis Engineer / STA Lead, where you'll play a critical role in delivering high-performance wireless connectivity solutions that power next-generation IoT, automotive, and industrial applications.

What You'll Do: Drive timing closure and synthesis optimization for advanced connectivity SoCs, ensuring our wireless solutions meet stringent performance, power, and area requirements across diverse market applications.

Technical Focus:

- Multi-Technology Expertise: Work on synthesis and timing analysis across various wireless connectivity standards and protocols
- Full Flow Ownership: Drive synthesis, timing analysis, and optimization from RTL to layout handoff
- Performance Leadership: Ensure timing closure for complex mixed-signal connectivity designs

Key Responsibilities:

- Perform static timing analysis and synthesis for connectivity SoCs
- Collaborate with design teams to optimize RTL for timing, power, and area
- Write SDC constraints across functional and DFT modes and validate the constraints through industry standard constraints checker tools
- Drive timing closure through physical design flow coordination
- Develop and maintain synthesis and STA methodologies and scripts

Growth Opportunities:

- Work on both established connectivity platforms and breakthrough wireless technologies
- Contribute to multiple tape-outs annually across different process nodes




- Influence next-generation connectivity architecture decisions
- Mentorship opportunities with junior engineers and cross-functional collaboration

Why This Role:

- Direct impact on TI's wireless connectivity portfolio performance
- Exposure to diverse wireless standards and emerging technologies
- Opportunity to work with state-of-the-art EDA tools and methodologies
- Be part of innovation initiatives including recent wireless technologies for TI

Technical Environment:

- Multiple process technology nodes and design rule sets
- Complex mixed-signal connectivity SoC designs
- Automated flow development and optimization

Ready to Drive Connectivity Performance? Join our team and help optimize the wireless technologies that connect our world.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: Education & Experience:

- 4-10 years of hands-on experience in synthesis, or static timing analysis

- >3 years of experience working on SoC-level designs (>1M gates)

Technical Expertise (Synthesis / STA):

Synthesis & Optimization:

- Proficiency with synthesis tools: Cadence Genus or similar

- Experience with multi-Vt optimization, clock gating, and power optimization techniques

- Knowledge of advanced synthesis constraints and optimization strategies





- Knowledge on Logic equivalence check, CLP

Static Timing Analysis:

- Hands on experience with Cadence Tempus, Synopsys PrimeTime, Complex constraints coding, understanding clocking architecture, DFT constraint modes, IO timing constraints coding for different interfaces like SPI, CAN etc.

- Deep understanding of setup/hold analysis, multi-mode multi-corner (MMMC) timing

- Experience with clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis and timing exceptions

Scripting & Automation:

- Strong programming skills in TCL and Perl

- Experience developing automated flows and regression frameworks

Process & Technology:

- Understanding of process variations, OCV/SoCV, mixed-VT analysis

- Knowledge of low-power design techniques

Design Knowledge:

- Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals and CMOS circuit behavior

- Familiarity with clock tree synthesis (CTS) and clock skew optimization

- Knowledge of DFT (Design for Test) impact on timing and synthesis

Soft Skills & Attributes:

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities

- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and presentations

- Self-motivated with ability to work independently and manage multiple projects

- Detail-oriented with commitment to quality and accuracy

- Adaptability to rapidly evolving technologies and methodologies

- Collaborative mindset for working in cross-functional teams

- Leadership and mentorship capabilities to lead and build a strong STA team

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