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Posted 09 July, 2026

Characterisation Engineer

Weekday AI
Bengaluru, KA, IN Full Time
Reference: 083e707c51d214e5

Job Description

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

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Experience: 3 to 7 years
\n Location: Bengaluru
\n JobType: full-time

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Role and Responsibilities:
\n Must be able to do characterization using Liberate/Primelib tools and understand the issues , failure fixes and QA of liberty.

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Requirements

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Skill Requirements:

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  • Experience and understanding of standard cell library design simulation.
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  • Understanding of concepts of balancing the cells, impact of width change on devices, issues in advanced technology nodes.
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  • Experience with at least one characterization tool (SiliconSmart/Liberate) for complete characterization of a library to generate the front end and back end views.
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  • Understanding of characterization methodologies for combinational, sequential cells and timing, power, capacitance models. Knowledge of cell characterization flows and methodologies, library verification and validation .
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  • Familiarity with circuit simulators, liberty syntax, library compiler, design compiler. Basic understanding of static timing analysis and synthesis. Scripting skills with perl, shell or python Setup simulation environment , write decks and perform design simulation.
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  • Write API/tcl coding for post processing liberty.
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  • Characterization and generation of front end and back end views for standard cell libraries Custom cell characterization setup and flows
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  • Library verification and validation.
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  • Apache(Redhawk) and voltus view generation and QA.
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  • Automation for the QA checks, for small tasks in setting up the flows for characterization and QA Documentation of and recording the issues, debugs, solutions and new/enhanced work flows
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  • Mentor and enhance the skill set of junior team members
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Good to have:

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  • \n Automation expert
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Must-have skills \n

Characterization, Liberate, Primelib

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