The application window is expected to close on: April 28, 2025.
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
This role requires being onsite in San Jose, CA 4+ days/week.
Your Impact
You are a diligent Design/SDC Engineer with strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of timing constraints, including clock groups, exceptions, and clock exclusivity. Proficient in industry-standard SDC/STA tools and scripting for automation, you excel at identifying and resolving timing issues across all design levels. You will collaborate with Front-end and Back-end teams to understand chip architecture and guide them in refining design and timing constraints for seamless physical design closure. As part of this team, you’ll contribute to developing next-generation networking chips.
Responsibilities include:
- Oversee fullchip SDCs and work with the Physical Design and DFT teams to close fullchip timing in multiple timing modes.
- Assist with the development of efficient methodology to promote block level SDCs to fullchip, and to bring fullchip SDC changes back to block level.
- Assist with the development and apply methodology to ensure correctness and quality of SDCs as early as possible in design cycle.
- Review block level SDCs and clocking diagrams and mentor other RTL design owners on SDC development.
- Create fullchip clocking diagrams and related documentation.
- Option to also do block level RTL design or block or top-level IP integration.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 8+ years of ASIC or related experience or Master’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 6+ years of ASIC or related experience.
- Experience with block/full chip SDC development in functional and test modes.
- Experience in Static Timing Analysis and prior working experience with STA tools like PrimeTime/Tempus.
- Experience with related digital design concepts (eg. clocking and async boundaries).
- Experience with synthesis tools (eg. Synopsys DC/DCG/FC), Verilog/System Verilog programming.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with constraint analyzer tools such as TCM (Timing Constraint Manager from Synopsys) and CCD (Conformal Constraint Designer from Cadence).
- Experience with Spyglass CDC and glitch analysis.
- Experience using Formal Verification: Synopsys Formality and Cadence LEC.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or TCL.