Job Details

CPU Design Timing Engineer

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Hardware

Summary

Posted: Apr 10, 2025

Role Number: 200598926

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In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of timing including working with the implementation and RTL teams on timing changes, helping with construction/modify timing flows, timing analysis, and timing closure.

Description

As the CPU Design Timing Engineer, you will be responsible for the timing closure of the project.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Working with the CAD team to develop the timing flow that will be used on the project including scripting to improve analysis flows and engineer efficiency.
• Work extensively with CPU micro-architects and Implementation engineers to drive timing closure for the CPU.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum BS and 10+ years of relevant experience

• Experience with timing analysis

• Experience with a static timing analysis tool such as PrimeTime® or Tempus®

• Experience with TCL and either Perl or Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience performing timing analysis in high speed digital designs such as CPUs or other similar designs

• Understanding of physical design tools and methodology including logic synthesis, PnR, parasitic extraction, logic equivalence

• Understanding of deep sub-micron technologies and scaling trends

• Working knowledge of CPU microarchitecture including common fundamental timing paths

• Working knowledge of clock-domain crossing and reset-domain crossing

• Experience with with multiple clock and power domains

• Experience with SDC command usage including clock definitions, timing exceptions, and IO constraints

• Experience with noise analysis and fixing noise in designs

• Experience with variation modeling in static timing analysis tools

• Experience with RTL modeling and assertion based verification

• Experience with data parsing, analysis, and representation/plotting

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