Job Description

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

Why TI?

• Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
• We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI
• Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us.

About Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment.

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