Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and technically strong Lead Validation Engineer with deep expertise in Static Timing Analysis (STA) and PrimeTime flows. As a senior specialist, you will lead and own validation of complex PrimeTime STA features and flows, from requirement analysis through quality sign-off. You will define and drive validation strategy, depth, and coverage for assigned functional areas, act as technical lead for L1/L2 engineers, and review and approve validation plans, testcases, regression results, and quality sign-off metrics.
Your responsibilities will include driving customer scenario reproduction, deep-dive debugging, and root-cause analysis of complex, cross-component issues, proactively identifying product weak areas, corner cases, and scalability/performance risks, and ensuring early detection. You will work closely with R&D, Product Engineering, and Field teams to clarify requirements, influence design decisions, validate fixes, and ensure smooth integration.
You will also architect and enhance automation frameworks using Perl, Tcl, and Python to improve productivity, robustness, and validation coverage, analyze large-scale validation and regression data to identify trends, systemic gaps, and improvement opportunities, and effectively leverage AI-assisted engineering tools for faster testcase and automation script development, debug acceleration and hypothesis generation, log analysis, flow understanding, and code reviews.
As a technical leader, you will prepare and present clear, executive-ready validation status, quality metrics, risks, and recommendations, participate in feature readiness reviews, postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives, and drive best practices in validation methodology, tooling, and knowledge sharing across the team.
In this role, you will own and drive quality sign-off for critical PrimeTime STA features, significantly reduce customer-reported issues through proactive, risk-based validation, improve tool accuracy, robustness, scalability, and real-world customer readiness, strengthen cross-team alignment by serving as a trusted technical Subject Matter Expert, elevate overall team capability through mentorship, technical leadership, and adoption of modern productivity tools, and influence product roadmap and feature decisions through validation-driven insights.