Intel Corporation · 1 day ago
CPU Core Timing and Automation Engineer
US, California, Folsom
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry Level
$106K/yr - $200K/yr
1+ years expIntel Corporation is a leading technology company that creates world-changing technology to enrich lives. They are seeking a CPU Core Timing and Automation Engineer to support full chip timing integration, ensuring seamless timing closure and optimization while developing automation environments and methodologies.
Semiconductors
Responsibilities
Performs timing analysis and timing optimization, generates, and verifies timing constraints, and fixes timing violations at chip/block level for SoCs
Conducts timing rollups, designs for functionality, and develops performance and power optimized clock networks
Develops and defines methodologies to ensure highest quality of timing models that enable the physical design team to operate efficiently with strong scripting expertise
Defines the right process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) conditions to be used for timing analysis for a given design based on product plans such as operating conditions and binning
Works closely with the clocking team and other backend full chip designers for clocking balance, timing fixes, power delivery, and partitioning and rollup generation, producing indicators for the team
Collaborates with architecture, clocking design, and logic design teams to deliver flow development for chip integration and validates high performance low power clock network guidelines
Build and maintain automation environments for timing model generation
Run timing models and generate and publish indicators
Support backend platforms to resolve timing violations
Drive timing closure across physical design stages
Innovate with AI-based tools, indicators, and ad-hoc automation
Own constraint management and budgeting flows using top high end CAD tools
Proactive, self-driven mindset with strong ownership attitude
Customer-focused and collaborative team player
Curious, innovative, and eager to push boundaries
Qualification
Required
The candidate must have a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Engineering or a related field with relevant experience with 1+ years of experience in scripting and software development (TCL, Python, AI-based coding tools) -OR- Master's Degree in Electronics/Electrical/Computer Engineering
At least a year of experience in backend design: synthesis, place and route (P and R)
At least a year of experience with optimization flows of STA tools
Preferred
2+ years of experience in x86 CPU architecture
2+ years of experience in TCL/Perl/Python programming
Benefits
Competitive pay
Stock bonuses
Health
Retirement
Vacation
Company
Intel Corporation
Our mission is to shape the future of technology to help create a better future for the entire world, that’s the power of Intel Inside.
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