Front-End ASIC Digital Design, Sr. Staff Engineer -18423

About the Role We are seeking a Front-End ASIC Design Engineer with hands-on experience taking RTL from specification through design sign-off. You will own RTL blocks for high-performance SoCs, drive synthesis and timing closure quality at the front-end boundary, and ensure designs are clean against lint, CDC/RDC, timing, and power sign-off criteria before hand-off to physical design. What You'll Be Doing: • Drive front-end sign-off: static timing analysis (STA), lint, CDC/RDC, synthesis, and power efficient design. • Translate architectural specifications and micro-architecture documents into synthesizable RTL (SystemVerilog/Verilog) for blocks and subsystems. • Own timing constraint (SDC) development and review; support full-chip timing closure. • Perform synthesis, QoR analysis, and iterative RTL optimization for area, timing, congestion, and power. • Apply formal property verification (VC Formal) and assertion-based design (SVA) to validate block behavior. • Run power estimation and analysis (PrimePower) and feed findings back into RTL optimization. • Contribute to methodology improvement, scripting, and regression automation. What You'll Need: • BS/MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or a related field, with 8+ years of experience in ASIC design and STA sign-off. • Demonstrated experience with front-end sign-off flows: STA (PrimeTime), lint (SpyGlass), and CDC/RDC. • Strong proficiency in SystemVerilog/Verilog RTL coding for synthesis. • Solid understanding of synthesis (Design Compiler / Fusion Compiler) and QoR analysis. • Experience with low-power design techniques: clock gating, power gating, multi-Vt, UPF. • Working knowledge of SDC constraint development and timing closure methodology • Proficiency in scripting: TCL, Python, Perl, and Linux/UNIX environments. • Command of digital design fundamentals: FSMs, arbitration, clock domain crossing, memory interfaces, and standard protocols (AMBA AXI/AHB/APB). • High-speed interface IP integration experience (PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, USB, MIPI) The Impact You Will Have: • The quality of your RTL and sign-off discipline will shape how well our designs meet their performance, power, and area goals. • Clean front-end sign-off from you means fewer late-stage surprises, fewer ECO cycles, and a predictable path to tape-out. • The methodology and automation you build will raise the quality bar for every future project the team takes on. • Your work ships in HPC and AI accelerator silicon deployed at scale in data centers worldwide. Who You Are: • Curious and improvement-minded: You identify an inefficient workflow, which you then automate and turn it into a reusable capability for everyone. • Accountable and proactive: You are hands-on and take the lead and responsibility for driving issues to a closure. • A clear communicator: Your specifications, review feedback, and sign-off documentation provide clear guidance for stakeholders. • Highly detail-oriented: You follow quality and sign-off checklists rigorously and prioritize finding issues early in the process than at a later stage. #LI-NK4 The Team You’ll Be A Part Of: You’ll join a collaborative ASIC Digital Design team focused on delivering high-performance, reliable solutions through close partnership across analog, physical design, and applications engineering. Rewards and Benefits: Synopsys offers a comprehensive package of health, wellness, financial, and professional development benefits designed to support you throughout your career. #LI-NK4