Standard Cells Characterization Engineer

The Standard Cells Characterization Engineer at Cisco leads the end-to-end characterization flow for standard cell libraries, ensuring accurate timing, power, and leakage modeling across various process, voltage, and temperature corners. This role involves defining characterization methodologies, driving correlation closure, and debugging failures at the netlist, simulation, and Liberty-model levels. The engineer collaborates with library design, physical verification, and CAD teams to ensure cell readiness and successful library releases.