Tenstorrent

Physical Design Engineer - STA

Austin, Texas, United States; Fort Collins, Colorado, United States; Santa Clara, California, United States. Posted 16 months ago

The role

You will drive static timing analysis and closure for complex, high-performance designs. You will collaborate with logic, DFT, and physical design teams to debug constraints, optimize paths, and ensure chips meet performance targets.

What you will do

  • Drive static timing analysis and closure for complex, high-performance designs
  • Collaborate with logic, DFT, and physical design teams
  • Debug constraints, optimize paths, and ensure chips meet performance targets across corners and modes

Required qualifications

  • 7+ years of industry experience
  • Proven record of successful tapeouts
  • Deep knowledge of STA tools and techniques, including noise, crosstalk, and OCV analysis
  • Proficiency in writing and debugging SDC constraints, creating ECOs, and developing closure strategies
  • Strong scripting skills in Python, Perl, and TCL
  • Familiarity with SPICE modeling and worst-case corner analysis

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation package and benefits

Before you apply

  • Offer is contingent upon being eligible to access U.S. export-controlled technology
  • Offer may be contingent upon citizenship/permanent residency status or ability to obtain prior license approval from the U.S. Commerce Department or applicable federal agency

About the company

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology. Their team has developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch.

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