Hybrid CPU Clock Design Engineer: Timing & CTS Innovator

Intel Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Intel Corporation is seeking a CPU Clock Design Engineer to help design, implement, analyze, and optimize clock distribution networks for next-generation CPU and SoC products. You will collaborate with architecture, design, physical implementation, validation, and EDA teams to ensure timing closure and high performance.

Join a team that drives clocking technologies and methodologies, with opportunities to influence future design flows and automation across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related STEM field with 3+ years of experience.
• Or a Master's in the same field with 1+ years of educational or work experience.
• Experience in three or more areas from the list (digital circuit design, VLSI design, physical design, CTS, STA, logic design, custom circuit design, semiconductor design methodologies) and programming/scripting in Python, Perl, TCL, or Shell.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize clock distribution networks for high-performance CPU and SoC products.
• Contribute to clock architecture development and clock tree synthesis (CTS) methodologies.
• Perform timing analysis and support timing closure across complex semiconductor designs.
• Develop custom circuits, library cells, and clock-related design solutions.
• Analyze performance, power, area, and timing tradeoffs to improve product efficiency.
• Create automation solutions using scripting and programming languages to improve design productivity.
• Collaborate with architecture, design, physical implementation, validation, and EDA teams.
• Support debug, validation, and optimization activities throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Drive technical issues to closure while maintaining high-quality engineering standards.
• Influence future methodologies, design flows, and clocking technologies.

Skills

Digital circuit design

VLSI design

Physical design

Clock tree synthesis

Static timing analysis

Logic design

Custom circuit design

Semiconductor design methodologies

Python/Perl/TCL/Shell

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related STEM field

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Full-chip design tools and flows

Job description

Intel Corporation is seeking a CPU Clock Design Engineer to help design, implement, analyze, and optimize clock distribution networks for next-generation CPU and SoC products. You will collaborate with architecture, design, physical implementation, validation, and EDA teams to ensure timing closure and high performance.

Join a team that drives clocking technologies and methodologies, with opportunities to influence future design flows and automation across the product lifecycle.