STA ASIC Design Engineer

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AMD is looking for an ASIC Design STA engineer to contribute to the development of large SoCs, featuring multiple physical blocks and over 300 clock domains. The candidate’s responsibilities will include building and verifying timing constraints for intricate SoC designs. This role demands a combination of SDC expertise, EDA tool proficiency, and TCL‑based scripting abilities. The candidate should possess extensive experience in SDC development and debugging, be familiar with enhancing various RTL quality metrics for complex, hierarchical designs, and be able to automate these processes for increased efficiency.

Proficiency in both front‑end (RTL) processes and back‑end (Synthesis and P&R) processes is preferred.

High‑energy candidates with strong written and verbal communication skills, and structured, well‑organized work habits will be successful. Team and goal oriented are essential.

• Responsible for the development of complex multi‑mode / multi‑corner timing constraints that are compatible for RTL and sign‑off
• Lead the effort to maintain RTL quality metrics in complex, hierarchical designs, while automating the process for increased efficiency
• Implement the pre‑route timing checks and QoR clean‑up to eliminate timing constraint issues and ensure a quality handoff for STA checks
• Collaborate with CAD on the development of pre‑production synthesis (Design Compiler) and STA (Prime Time) workflows
• Require a blend of SDC expertise, proficiency in EDA tools, and Tcl‑based scripting abilities (in both EDA environment and standalone Linux Tcl shell scripts)

• Worked with EDA tools that enable RTL quality checks
• Hands‑on experience in building the timing constraints for IPs, blocks and full‑chip implementation in both flat and hierarchical flows
• Experience with analyzing the timing reports and identifying both the design and constraint‑related issues
• Ability to multitask, grasp new flows/tools/ideas
• Experience in improving the methodologies
• Preferred EDA tool experience:
  Synopsys Design Compiler, Prime Time, Spyglass, Fishtail, etc.
• Prior experience developing complex TCL scripts in Synopsys Design Compiler and Prime Time
• Writing custom TCL QC and QoR checks using DC/PT object attribute queries and filters
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering

San Jose, CA

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

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