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Ampere · 10 hours ago

Principal CAD Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

Part-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$152K/yr - $254K/yr

6+ years exp

Ampere is a semiconductor design company focused on high-performance, energy efficient, sustainable cloud computing. The Principal CAD Engineer will advance high-performance implementation and physical design, developing and maintaining physical design flows and contributing to methodology changes across projects.

Cloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesHardwareSemiconductor

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop and support innovative physical design methodology and custom CAD

Work closely with implementation and physical design (PD) team

Debugging flow issues

Running multiple test designs through flow on latest technologies to determine impact on technology changes to area, power and timing

Automating new flow practices for general use in the design community

Qualification

Physical design CAD flowPowerPerformanceArea (PPA)Low power design techniquesScriptingAutomationEDA tools experienceHierarchical P&R developmentElectricalComputer EngineeringCommunicationProblem-solving skills

Required

Experience in Physical design CAD flow including synthesis, floorplanning, placement, CTS and routing

Proven experience with block-level closure and developing PD flows that result in quantifiable improvements in power, performance and area (PPA)

Experience with low power design and implementation techniques using UPF/CPF

Experience in hierarchical P&R and flow development such as top-level floorplanning, pin-assignment, clock-distribution, critical-signal handling, hierarchical abstractions (black-box, ILM, etc.)

Strong scripting and automation skills (Tcl, Perl, Python, Makefile, etc)

Experience in developing complex algorithms, managing, and regressing P&R flows

Familiar with chip-finishing issues (metal-fill, spare-cells, DFM rules, boundary-cells, etc.) for the latest generations of process technologies

Experience with EDA tools such as Cadence Genus, Cadence Innovus, Mentor Calibre

Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Electrical or Computer Engineering - Bachelor's degree & 8 years of related experience; or Master's degree & 6 years; or PhD & 3 years

Preferred

power distribution, static timing analysis and physical design verification experience

Benefits

Premium medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Income protection

401K retirement plan

Unlimited Flextime

10+ paid holidays

A variety of healthy snacks

Energizing espresso

Refreshing drinks

Company

Ampere

Ampere is a modern semiconductor company designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge computing with the world’s first Cloud Native Processors.

Founded in 2017

Santa Clara, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://amperecomputing.com

H1B Sponsorship

Ampere has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (52)

2024 (50)

2023 (61)

2022 (56)

2021 (52)

2020 (30)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$813.8M

Key Investors

OracleThe Carlyle Group

2025-03-20Acquired

2022-04-01Secondary Market· $127.8M

2022-04-01Convertible Note· $300M

Leadership Team

Adam Young

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Atiq Bajwa

Chief Architect

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