Sanjiv Kumar C.A

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 12 years of experience in design engineering.
  • Successful completion of 10+ smartphone SoC tapeouts.
  • Expertise in physical design across multiple technology nodes.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Design Engineer with extensive experience in physical design and digital systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Physical DesignDigital Design

Other Skills

PerlTclSynopsys ICCCadence InnovusICCompilerCalibrePrimetimePhysical VerificationVHDLFPGAEmbedded SystemsCCircuit DesignVerilogElectronics

About

Passionate and enthusiastic Design Engineer with total 12 years of experience, focused on achieving best PPA within tight schedules. Excellent project management abilities demonstrated by working with multi-site design teams, mentoring new-hires and successful 10+ smartphone SoC tapeouts.

Experience

14 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Cadence

2 roles

Sr. Principal Application Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Principal Application Engineer

Feb 2022Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Samsung electronics

Senior Staff Engineer

Dec 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mediatek

3 roles

Staff Engineer

Jun 2017Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Experienced in physical implementation of digital macro/block/top designs having 1000's to ~4Million gates in various deep tech nodes - 28/16/10/7 nm and automation using Perl/Tcl scripting languages.
  • Proficient in Flat & Hierarchical design flows including floor planning, P&R, CTS, ECOs using Synopsys ICC/ICC2 & Cadence Innovus tools.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively on all levels from Block/IP owner to Project Manager and exhibit complete ownership & dedication of given tasks.
  • Good hands-on experience on congestion prone 4G Modem designs to high speed AI processors (~1GHz) and in-depth understanding of DVFS, multi-power domain and low power MTCMOS techniques.
PerlTclSynopsys ICCCadence InnovusPhysical DesignDigital Design

Senior Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2015Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Physical design / Silicon realization of high speed LTE Modem chips [ Hierarchical designs with few million instances ]
  • Responsible for Netlist to GDS flow including Floorplanning, Place & route, Physical verification, and STA.
  • Hands on experience with EDA tools like ICCompiler/Calibre/Primetime/Laker/Tweaker
ICCompilerCalibrePrimetimePhysical VerificationPhysical DesignDigital Design

Engineer

Apr 2014Mar 2015 · 11 mos

  • Silicon Realization engineer in the LTE design team
  • Have worked on netlist-GDS flow for several small to medium sized digital macros/IP's

Broadcom

Intern

Jul 2013Feb 2014 · 7 mos · Singapore

  • Part of Integration team in Digital Video Technology group developing complex SoCs for STBs
  • Good working knowledge on industry standard deep sub-micron SoC development flow
  • Developed Perl automation scripts to ease manual work for generating various DRC & timing reports
  • Performing frontend block-level RTL synthesis, STA and timing closure in multiple SoC projects

Infosys technologies ltd

Systems Engineer

Jul 2010Jul 2012 · 2 yrs · Chennai, India

  • Skilled in Incident & Change management activities of web applications for a top retail corporation
  • Focused on highest levels of service offerings to clients and improved their bottom-line performance
  • Collaboratively designed an electronic gadget ‘Emotion Meter’ to measure employee emotions
  • Good management and leadership skills gained through interactions and negotiations with clients
  • Successfully completed ‘Managing Upward’ course from Harvard Manage Mentor
  • Won ‘Rising Star Award’ for excellent project performance

Education

Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Integrated Circuit Design

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Technical University of Munich

Master of Science (M.Sc.) — Integrated Circuit Design

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Anna University Chennai

B.E — Electronics and communication

Jan 2006Jan 2010

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