Staff Engineer, CE CAD
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