RTL (ASIC) Design Engineer

ACL Digital · Himachal Pradesh, India

RTL Design Engineer (SDC Constraints)

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We are looking for a highly skilled Senior RTL ASIC Design Engineer with strong hands-on experience in SDC Constraints. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in RTL design, timing constraints, and close collaboration with synthesis and STA teams.

Design and develop RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog) for complex ASIC blocks and subsystems

Create, review, and maintain SDC constraints (clock definitions, I/O constraints, false paths, multicycle paths, exceptions, etc.)

Work closely with synthesis, STA, physical design, and verification teams to achieve timing closure

Perform RTL quality checks, linting, and CDC analysis

Support timing debugging and constraint optimization across multiple design iterations

Participate in architecture discussions and design reviews

Ensure deliverables meet performance, power, and area (PPA) goals.

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️ 7+ years of hands-on experience in RTL ASIC design

️ Strong and mandatory expertise in SDC

️ Clocking strategies

️ Timing exceptions

️ Constraint validation and debug

️ Proficiency in Verilog/SystemVerilog

️ Solid understanding of ASIC design flow (RTL Synthesis STA P&R)

️ Experience working with Synopsys tools (DC, PrimeTime - preferred)

️ Strong knowledge of timing concepts and timing closure

️ Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills

Experience in low-power design techniques

Exposure to CDC/RDC methodologies

Experience with complex SoC designs

Scripting knowledge (Tcl / Perl / Python)

Prior experience working with global or distributed teams