CareerPlan

Principal Design Automation Engineer

San Jose, California, United States of AmericaFull-time$176k2026-07-23 → 2026-11-10

Core

Drive the transformation of NAND circuit development through design automation, agentic circuit-design enablement, and environment transition.

Role type

Principal Design Automation Engineer (NAND Flash)

Builds

NAND Flash memory chips with integrated analog/mixed-signal circuits and automated design flows

Domain

Semiconductor / Memory / Analog & Mixed-Signal Design

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

NAND Flash memory algorithms, analog/mixed-signal circuit design, circuit layout, semiconductor physics, circuit verification, Python for engineering automation, EDA tools (Cadence, LVS/DRC), UNIX

Preferred skills

PhD in electrical engineering, AI/LLM-assisted flows development

Technologies

HSPICE, Fast SPICE, Verilog, Cadence, UNIX, Python

Responsibilities

Implement core Xpath, Ypath and Array design; Implement analog and mixed signal circuit design; Serve as a technical authority across analog/core teams; Develop and productize agentic enablement for circuit design; Integrate automation with project execution; Collaborate with multi-functional team members

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC