Tenstorrent
Physical Design Engineer, Timing
$100K–$500K
Austin, Texas, United States +5 · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas, United States
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Santa Clara, California, United States
Austin, Texas, United States
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Santa Clara, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years; candidates at various experience levels are welcome and will be assessed for the appropriate level.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment is contingent on eligibility to access U.S. export-controlled technology. For persons whose most recent country of citizenship or permanent residence is in EAR Country Groups D:1, E1, or E2, access requires a U.S. export license or prior license approval; an offer may be rescinded if employment is not possible under U.S. export laws.
About the job
Converge timing for advanced-node, multi-million-gate designs, developing constraints and fixes and partnering across teams through signoff and tapeout.
What you'll do
- Drive timing convergence, generate and validate timing models, and publish results.
- Analyze timing violations and flow issues, develop fixes, and progress execution through tapeout.
- Develop and validate bottom-up constraints with Design and DFT teams; update methodology and closure requirements.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of experience in STA, timing closure, and advanced-node design implementation.
- Experience with timing flows, constraints, clocking, CDC, RDC, derates, uncertainties, guardbanding, and final signoff.
- Skill writing and debugging SDC constraints, creating ECOs, developing closure strategies, and analyzing worst-case corners.
- Use Python, Perl, and Tcl for automation and flow development.
Nice to have
- Experience with SPICE, PNR, placement, CTS, routing, post-route optimization, or DFT.
- Experience with AI-based automation.
Pay
$100k - $500k (base and variable compensation targets; compensation type not specified as base salary or total pay)
Tools
Python, Perl, Tcl, SPICE, PNR, SDC, CDC, RDC
AI focus
Improve implementation and signoff workflows through emerging AI-enabled solutions; AI-based automation is a plus.
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