Senior PD STA Engineer

SmartSoC, a Virtusa Company , is a leading semiconductor engineering services organization specializing in end-to-end ASIC, SoC, FPGA, Embedded Systems, and VLSI design solutions. Backed by Virtusa's global engineering capabilities, SmartSoC partners with leading semiconductor companies to deliver innovative, high-quality silicon solutions across the entire chip development lifecycle.

Looking For : STA Lead

Work Location: Bangalore

Experience: 3 to 10 Years

Availability: Immediate or currently serving notice candidates is preferred

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-efficient 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
• 3+ 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.