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Staff Engineer, CE CAD

Richardson, Texas, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-31 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop, integrate, and optimize Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and flows for CMOS integrated circuit physical layout and design verification.

Role type

Staff Engineer, CE CAD (Electronic Design Automation)

Builds

Production support for design verification flows, next-generation CAD software, and engineering infrastructure for memory design.

Domain

Semiconductor / Memory / Physical Design / EDA

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Unix and shell scripting, CMOS circuits, deep-submicron physical design, layout design rules, Calibre DRC/LVS, floorplanning, automated P&R, SPF extraction, Verilog, Verilog-A, ncverilog, VCS, Spice/FastSpice, FineSim/PrimeSim, HSPICE, RTL-to-GDS flows

Preferred skills

Cadence Virtuoso DFII, SKILL programming, Python, Python Qt frameworks

Technologies

Calibre, Virtuoso, SKILL, VCS, HSPICE, Python, Qt

Responsibilities

Develop tools and methodologies to increase design productivity; Integrate commercial EDA tools into design flows; Provide training and support to end users; Undertake R&D for next-generation CAD software; Identify deficiencies in current tools and flows; Evaluate tools with internal customers to define efficiency improvements; Develop and maintain engineering infrastructure

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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