Drimva

Tensordyne

Staff ASIC STA Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 3, 2026

Location
Sunnyvale, CA
San Jose, California, United States
Experience
10+ years of hands-on ASIC engineering experience.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.

About the job

Lead hands-on ASIC physical static timing analysis (STA) design and workflow development, owning timing closure and signoff for multimodal generative AI inference chips.

What you'll do

  • Own full-chip timing closure and signoff, including hierarchical STA, timing analysis, and clock analysis.
  • Develop and improve ASIC timing optimization, implementation, and exploration workflows and technologies.
  • Guide and support backend design teams on STA issues, clock trees, routing, and timing ECOs at block and full-chip levels.

What they ask for

  • 10+ years of hands-on ASIC engineering experience, including deep knowledge of VLSI/SoC physical design workflows.
  • Strong STA physical-design knowledge and ability to write SDCs for high-speed interfaces and multi-clock-domain blocks.
  • Experience with clock methodology, hierarchical constraints, and leading or supporting backend design teams.
  • Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

Tools

Cadence, Synopsys PrimeTime, Tempus, SDC, PCIe, SerDes, Genus, Innovus

AI focus

Develop STA design and engineering workflows for multimodal generative AI inference acceleration products in an environment that utilizes GenAI frontier models.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)