STA Design Engineer - Low-Power ASIC Timing Closure

European Tech Recruit; Cork; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

European Tech Recruit is partnering with a global semiconductor leader to hire an STA Design Engineer in Cork, Ireland. You will conduct complex timing signoff for next-generation ASICs and SOCs, drive timing closure, and collaborate with RTL, Synthesis and Physical Design teams.

Responsibilities include evaluating timing on gate-level netlists, creating ECOs, and developing Python/TCL/Perl scripts to automate data mining and processing of timing and power data.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Static Timing Analysis.
• Expert proficiency in STA tools for hierarchical analysis in large SoCs.
• Hands-on experience with ECO tools for timing closure.
• Automation scripting with Python, TCL or Perl.
• Strong knowledge of the complete ASIC design flow RTL-to-GDS.

Responsibilities

• Perform STA and drive timing closure for complex cores and full-chip SOCs.
• Evaluate block-level and top-level timing on gate-level netlists.
• Provide feedback to RTL, Synthesis, and Physical Design teams to improve PPA.
• Create and execute Timing ECOs to resolve critical timing violations.
• Develop automation scripts for timing/power data mining and processing.

Skills

Static Timing Analysis

Python scripting

TCL scripting

Perl scripting

RTL-to-GDS understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or equivalent

Tools

PrimeTime

PrimeShield

Tempus

Tweaker

PrimeClosure

PTECO

Job description

European Tech Recruit is partnering with a global semiconductor leader to hire an STA Design Engineer in Cork, Ireland. You will conduct complex timing signoff for next-generation ASICs and SOCs, drive timing closure, and collaborate with RTL, Synthesis and Physical Design teams.

Responsibilities include evaluating timing on gate-level netlists, creating ECOs, and developing Python/TCL/Perl scripts to automate data mining and processing of timing and power data.