STA PrimeTime Test and Validation Senior Specialist

Job Title

STA PrimeTime Test and Validation Senior Specialist

Role Summary

Senior validation engineer responsible for owning end-to-end validation of PrimeTime static timing analysis (STA) features and flows. Acts as a technical lead and subject-matter expert, coordinating across Product Validation, R&D, Product Engineering, and Field teams to ensure feature quality and readiness.

Responsible for defining validation strategy, mentoring engineers, driving automation and data-driven debugging, and communicating executive-ready quality metrics.

Experience Level

Senior-level. Typical experience guidance: approximately 4–5+ years of relevant industry experience; see Education Requirements for degree and specific experience expectations.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include ownership of validation strategy, cross-team debugging, automation, and reporting:

• Lead and own validation of complex PrimeTime STA features and flows from requirement analysis through quality sign-off.
• Define validation strategy, coverage, and sign-off criteria for assigned functional areas.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to L1/L2 engineers on STA concepts, testcase design, and debugging approaches.
• Reproduce customer scenarios, perform deep-dive debugging, and conduct root-cause analysis for cross-component issues.
• Drive functional, regression, stress, accuracy, and sign-off-oriented testing for STA features and advanced flows.
• Architect and enhance automation frameworks to improve productivity, robustness, and validation coverage.
• Analyze large-scale validation and regression data to identify trends, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly to accelerate testcase and script development, log analysis, and documentation, while validating outputs for correctness.
• Prepare and present executive-ready validation status, quality metrics, risks, and recommendations; participate in readiness reviews and postmortems.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, tools experience, and professional behaviors required for success.

• Strong, hands-on understanding of Static Timing Analysis fundamentals and advanced timing concepts.
• Deep hands-on experience with PrimeTime or equivalent STA tools and large-scale, hierarchical STA flows.
• Experience with SDC constraints, OCV/AOCV/POCV, derates, PBA, ECO, and what-if analysis flows.
• Proven ability to debug complex, ambiguous, cross-component issues and drive root-cause fixes.
• Strong proficiency in Perl, Tcl, and Python for automation and framework development.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools responsibly to improve engineering productivity and validation quality.
• Track record of technical ownership, leadership, rigorous documentation, and sign-off discipline.

Education Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with 5+ years of relevant experience, OR Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE) with 4+ years of relevant experience.

About the Company

Company: Synopsys

Headquarters: Mountain View, California, USA

Synopsys is a leading company in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP solutions. It provides tools and services for designing and verifying complex semiconductor devices and systems. The company plays a pivotal role in the semiconductor industry, helping engineers innovate and deliver higher-quality products faster. Synopsys is committed to advancing technology standards and offers a range of software and hardware solutions to its clients globally.