Senior STA and Synthesis Engineer / STA Lead - Texas Instruments
About the Role: Join Texas Instruments' Connectivity engineering team as a Senior STA and Synthesis Engineer / STA Lead, where you'll play a critical role in delivering high-performance wireless connectivity solutions that power next-generation IoT, automotive, and industrial applications.
What You'll Do: Drive timing closure and synthesis optimization for advanced connectivity SoCs, ensuring our wireless solutions meet stringent performance, power, and area requirements across diverse market applications.
Technical Focus:
- Multi-Technology Expertise: Work on synthesis and timing analysis across various wireless connectivity standards and protocols
- Full Flow Ownership: Drive synthesis, timing analysis, and optimization from RTL to layout handoff
- Performance Leadership: Ensure timing closure for complex mixed-signal connectivity designs
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform static timing analysis and synthesis for connectivity SoCs
- Collaborate with design teams to optimize RTL for timing, power, and area
- Write SDC constraints across functional and DFT modes and validate the constraints through industry standard constraints checker tools
- Drive timing closure through physical design flow coordination
- Develop and maintain synthesis and STA methodologies and scripts
Growth Opportunities:
- Work on both established connectivity platforms and breakthrough wireless technologies
- Contribute to multiple tape-outs annually across different process nodes
- Influence next-generation connectivity architecture decisions
- Mentorship opportunities with junior engineers and cross-functional collaboration
Why This Role:
- Direct impact on TI's wireless connectivity portfolio performance
- Exposure to diverse wireless standards and emerging technologies
- Opportunity to work with state-of-the-art EDA tools and methodologies
- Be part of innovation initiatives including new wireless technologies for TI
Technical Environment:
- Multiple process technology nodes and design rule sets
- Complex mixed-signal connectivity SoC designs
- Automated flow development and optimization
Ready to Drive Connectivity Performance? Join our team and help optimize the wireless technologies that connect our world.
Required Qualifications: Education & Experience:
- 4-10 years of hands-on experience in synthesis, or static timing analysis
- >3 years of experience working on SoC-level designs (>1M gates)
Technical Expertise (Synthesis / STA):
Synthesis & Optimization:
- Proficiency with synthesis tools: Cadence Genus or similar
- Experience with multi-Vt optimization, clock gating, and power optimization techniques
- Knowledge of advanced synthesis constraints and optimization strategies
- Knowledge on Logic equivalence check, CLP
Static Timing Analysis:
- Hands on experience with Cadence Tempus, Synopsys PrimeTime, Complex constraints coding, understanding clocking architecture, DFT constraint modes, IO timing constraints coding for different interfaces like SPI, CAN etc.
- Deep understanding of setup/hold analysis, multi-mode multi-corner (MMMC) timing
- Experience with clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis and timing exceptions
Scripting & Automation:
- Strong programming skills in TCL and Perl
- Experience developing automated flows and regression frameworks
Process & Technology:
- Understanding of process variations, OCV/SoCV, mixed-VT analysis
- Knowledge of low-power design techniques
Design Knowledge:
- Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals and CMOS circuit behavior
- Familiarity with clock tree synthesis (CTS) and clock skew optimization
- Knowledge of DFT (Design for Test) impact on timing and synthesis
Soft Skills & Attributes:
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and presentations
- Self-motivated with ability to work independently and manage multiple projects
- Detail-oriented with commitment to quality and accuracy
- Adaptability to rapidly evolving technologies and methodologies
- Collaborative mindset for working in cross-functional teams
- Leadership and mentorship capabilities to lead and build a strong STA team