Summary
Abid Jindani is a Director of Engineering based in Austin with nine years in leadership and over two decades of hands-on expertise in physical IC design, specializing in DSP and SoC implementation from RTL to GDSII. At Qualcomm he has progressed from senior engineer to Director, repeatedly leading DSP physical design teams and driving timing- and power-closure across advanced flows including floorplanning, CTS, routing, EM/IR and DRC/LVS. He combines deep tool-level knowledge (physical synthesis, extraction, STA) with program management—owning full-chip integration and chip-finishing challenges on complex multimedia and networking chips. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic closure strategies that balance power, performance and manufacturability, and for mentoring engineers through difficult signoff phases. His background includes contributions at Synopsys, AMD, MediaTek and Freescale, giving him a rare cross-vendor perspective on EDA flows and silicon realities.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University
English, Urdu