Synthesis Engineer, Principal - Bangalore, India
Originally posted 15 September 2026 by the employer — open 5 days.
About the role
This role involves the physical synthesis and timing closure of hardware designs.
What you'll do
- Develop and apply Physical Synthesis and Synthesis methodologies using industry-standard tools.
- Write timing constraints for synthesis, STA, timing closure, and pipelining.
- Perform timing closure for multi-clock domain designs.
- Implement low-power design using UPF.
- Handle ECOs and formal verification.
- Collaborate with design, DFT, and PD teams for netlist delivery and timing constraints validation.
What you'll need
- Strong understanding of Physical Synthesis and Synthesis methodologies.
- Experience with writing timing constraints for synthesis, STA, timing closure, and pipelining.
- Experience with timing closure for multi-clock domain designs.
- Familiarity with MCMM synthesis and optimization.
- Good understanding of low-power design implementation using UPF.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and TCL.
- Experience with different power optimization flows or techniques such as clock gating.
- 15 years of experience in Hardware Engineering or related work.
Skills: Physical Synthesis, timing constraints, STA, timing closure, low-power design
This role has been open 4 days — well below the 59-day median for Physical Design roles.
Physical Design · Physical Design
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Open roles in category
604
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$185k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (604 roles · 79 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 108 | 604 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 148 | 1373 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 42 d | 59 d (−17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $185k |
Skills observed across this category: Physical Synthesis, timing constraints, STA, timing closure, low-power design
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 108 open roles · median 42 d
- NVIDIA · 39 open roles · median 44 d
- Broadcom · 38 open roles · median 69 d
- AMD · 35 open roles · median 39 d
- Synopsys · 27 open roles · median 58 d
- Renesas Electronics · 25 open roles · median 46 d
How we counted: 604 open Physical Design (Physical Design) roles from 79 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 20 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.