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-productive 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. - Strong 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