CareerPlan

Senior ASIC Timing Engineer

US, MA, WestfordFull-time$168k2026-07-09 → 2026-11-10

Core

Drive physical design and timing closure for high-frequency, low-power DPUs, SoCs, and chiplets at block, sub-chip, and full-chip levels.

Role type

Senior ASIC Timing Design Engineer

Builds

High-speed communication devices (DPUs, SoCs) for networking silicon

Domain

Semiconductor / ASIC Physical Design / Networking

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Static Timing Analysis (STA), timing constraints management, timing convergence, physical design optimization (placement, routing, cell sizing, buffering), logic synthesis, logical equivalence checking (LEC), Python/Tcl/Make scripting, EDA tool expertise (Synopsys PrimeTime, Cadence Tempus)

Preferred skills

DFT timing closure, deep sub-micron process variation modeling, flow/automation development, CPU/GPU/Network processor domain experience

Technologies

Synopsys PrimeTime, Cadence Tempus, Python, Tcl, Make

Responsibilities

Drive frontend and backend implementation from RTL to GDS2; analyze and optimize design constraints for performance, power, and area; fix timing paths through ECOs including crosstalk and noise analysis

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC