SOC Physical Design Static Timing Analysis Engineer

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As a Physical Design Timing Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the performance, power efficiency, and functionality of Intel's cutting‑edge System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Your expertise will directly impact product quality, enabling groundbreaking advancements in technology that drive computing innovation.

Collaborating across multiple teams, you will contribute to the creation and optimization of high-performance, low‑power solutions while developing methodologies that enhance efficiency and operational excellence. This is an exciting opportunity to work on complex designs that have a global impact, delivering solutions that power today's world and inspire tomorrow's possibilities.

• Perform SOC level timing analysis and optimization, ensuring designs meet functional and performance requirements.
• Generate and verify timing constraints while addressing timing violations at the chip or block level for SoCs.
• Conduct timing rollups and develop optimized clock networks for functionality, performance, and power efficiency.
• Define methodologies to produce high-quality timing models and enable efficient physical design execution.
• Establish the appropriate process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) conditions for timing analysis, aligning with product plans and binning strategies.
• Work closely with the clocking team and full-chip designers to balance timing fixes, power delivery, clocking, and partitioning.
• Collaborate with architecture, clocking design, DFT and logic design teams to develop flows for chip integration and validate clock network performance guidelines.
• Contribute to the development of tools, flows, and methodologies that enhance SoC physical design and timing processes.

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years or master’s degree with 6+ years or PhD with 4+ years in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years technical proficiency in SOC level static timing analysis, clock network design, and timing closure methodologies.
• 3+ years of experience with the following skills:
• Strong expertise in timing constraint adaptation, physical design knowledge, and optimization techniques.
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools for timing analysis, extraction, and physical design.
• Familiarity with TCL scripting and timing budgeting processes.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across diverse teams and drive innovative solutions for SoC designs.
• Experience with SoC clocking methodologies, disciplined execution, and problem-solving in digital design.
• Knowledge of tools, flows, and methodologies for high-performance physical design.
• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts effectively.
• DFT architecture knowledge is a strong plus.

Experienced Hire

Shift 1 (United States of America)

US, Arizona, Phoenix

US, California, Santa Clara

The Central Engineering Group (CEG) is Intel's data‑driven organization that builds scalable engineering solutions across three pillars:
Product Enablement (IP, tools, and methodologies), Custom ASIC (leveraging existing IP for custom silicon), and Foundry Enablement (supporting top customers and validating technologies). The team focuses on customer‑driven, end‑to‑end solutions with short development cycles to deliver measurable business impact across Intel's product and foundry businesses.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

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