Principal Physical Design Engineer, STA
About The Position
Broadcom’s ASIC Products Division is seeking a Full-Chip Static Timing Analysis (STA) Engineer for its Physical Design team. The team develops custom high-performance ASICs for hyperscale cloud providers, AI companies, and networking infrastructure leaders, using advanced physical-design methodologies, leading-edge process nodes, and 2.5D/3D chiplet integration. The role is responsible for ensuring next-generation ASICs meet performance targets and timing requirements across operating conditions. It involves full-chip timing sign-off and closure, managing large-scale multi-mode multi-corner scenarios, using advanced EDA flows and AI-driven automation, and improving compute infrastructure efficiency and timing-closure speed. The position is based in San Jose, California.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- 12+ years of hands-on ASIC STA and timing-closure experience.
- Expert proficiency with sign-off tools such as PrimeTime or Tempus.
- Expertise in advanced MMMC and OCV management.
- Strong scripting skills in Tcl, Python, Perl, and Shell.
- Proven record of using AI plugins and data-mining scripts for runtime reduction and reporting.
- Exceptional problem-solving and communication abilities.
Responsibilities
- Own final timing closure across PVT corners and author and maintain SDC constraints for functional and test modes.
- Deploy AI/ML automation in STA flows to reduce execution runtime and improve shared server and infrastructure efficiency.
- Implement ML-based corner reduction while ensuring full physical coverage.
- Use automated workflows and data-mining to triage violations, identify root causes, and eliminate timing and design marginalities across complex clock networks and multi-die boundaries.
- Apply advanced OCV, signal-integrity, and IR-drop concepts and drive timing ECOs.
- Collaborate with RTL, Physical Design, and DFT teams to optimize PPA.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus.
- Competitive new-hire equity grant and annual equity awards, subject to applicable plan documents and award agreements.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) participation with company matching.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Company-paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave and vacation time.
- Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence in accordance with applicable laws.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
