SoC Physical Design Engineer, STA/Timing
Location
Waltham, MA
Level
Mid-Level
Department
Consumer Electronics
Type
Salary
$132,000 - $245,000
Job Description
Posted on:
2026-01-16
Responsibilities
- Work with design teams to understand and debug constraints and facilitate logic changes to improve timing.
- Collaborate with the Physical Design team to highlight issues and best practices.
- Create timing ECOs for project tapeout.
- Develop and maintain scripts and methodologies for analysis and runs.
- Document and assist with guidelines/specs.
- Conduct deep analysis of timing paths to identify key issues.
- Implement timing infrastructure.
Job Requirements
- Minimum BS degree and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience with large design STA and Timing Closure.
- Programming skills with Perl and TCL.
- Hands-on experience in STA and familiarity with timing aspects of high-performance SoC designs.
- Proficient in STA methodologies for timing closure and understanding of noise, crosstalk, and OCV effects.
- Familiarity with circuit modeling and ECO techniques.
- Strong communication skills to describe issues and follow through to completion.
