Staff Design Constraints Engineer

Job ID

Date posted Aug. 18, 2025

Location Bengaluru, India

Category Design Engineering

Responsibilities

• As a creative Design Constraints Engineer, you will be part of the Front-End Design team, developing, validating, optimizing, and handing off constraints for complex SoCs, ensuring robust timing closure and seamless integration across the various stages of SOC design cycle.

• Your key responsibilities will include creating and maintaining Design constraints, validating them using industry standard STA tools and handing off to the Implementation teams.

• You will closely work with the Design team to capture the Design constraints.

• You will be validating these constraints using industry standard constraint validation tools like Time Vision and other equivalent tools.

• You will partner with the Implementation teams to resolve timing and constraint-related issues.

• You will also contribute to developing and enhancing the design methodologies used by the team.

• You will guide and support other members of the team as needed to enable the successful completion of project activities.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's or master's degree on Electrical & Electronics Engineering, VLSI or an equivalent discipline.

• Experience of 8+ years working in Design, Synthesis and Design constraints of complex Subsystems or SoCs

• Strong expertise in SDC syntax and timing constraint methodologies

• Expertise in Constraints development and validation tools such as Time Vision, or any equivalent

• Proficient in STA tools such asSynopsys PrimeTime, Cadence Tempus, or equivalent

• Experience in synthesis tools (Design Compiler, Genus) and PnR tools (ICC2, Innovus) preferred

• Familiarity with multi-mode multi-corner (MMMC) timing closure

• Proficient in Perl, Python, Tcl or other scripting language

• Good communication (written, verbal, presentations) skills.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience leading Synthesis and Design constraints for Subsystems or SoCs

• Knowledge of clock-domain crossing (CDC) and asynchronous design constraints

• Familiarity with formal verification of constraints.

• Exposure to high-speed interface constraints (DDR, PCIe, etc.).

• Knowledge of DFT and Physical Implementation

• Experience with ARM-based designs and/or ARM System Architectures

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