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The University of Texas at Austin · 4 weeks ago

CAD/EDA Engineer I, CAD/EDA Engineer II, Senior CAD/EDA Engineer, Texas Institute for Electronics

Austin, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid, Senior Level

The University of Texas at Austin is a global leader in technology innovation and engineering education. They are seeking a Senior CAD/EDA Engineer to implement automation and workflows for custom integrated circuit design and 3DHI modeling, while developing and maintaining automation scripts in Linux environments and providing user support for design kits.

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No H1B

Responsibilities

Create and maintain scripts/automation to assure compatibility and integration with wide range of EDA IC design/modeling tools to enable simulation/emulation, physical verification, parasitic extraction, and 3DHI modeling

Help develop, deploy, and maintain TIE's ADK (Assembly Design Kits)

Maintain interoperability and compatibility of TIE’s design kits with our partner PDK’s, our internal PDK’s & ADK’s, and vendor EDA tool revisions

Developing innovative physical design place & route methodology and flow solutions to meet current and future design challenges

Help establish and validate physical design methodologies, flow automation and infrastructure for our internal 3D heterogenous micro-system modeling teams

Automation of Test structure layouts to help drive next generation processing capabilities across a wide range of materials

Support TIE's standard cell offerings and drive validation/simulation/emulation capability around those standard cells

Facilitate and oversee project tapeouts

Providing technical leadership, mentoring and customer support for our internal design and 3D modeling teams

Qualification

Electrical EngineeringComputer ScienceEDA toolsUNIX scriptingLinuxWindowsSemiconductor IC designTeamworkCommunicationProject management

Required

CAD/EDA Engineer I: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field

CAD/EDA Engineer II: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field, Minimum of three years industry experience

Senior CAD/EDA Engineer: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field, Minimum of ten years industry experience

Experience in developing and customizing high performance semiconductor IC design, layout, & validation flows using industry-standard EDA tools ( Cadence, Synopsys, Ansys, Siemens…)

Excellent UNIX and scripting programming skills (Perl, Python, TCL or similar languages)

Experience with software build automation and version control software

Proficiency in both Linux and Windows environments

Prior CAD support experience in semiconductor IC design, including oversight of product tapeouts

Strong teamwork, collaboration, and communication abilities, with the ability to contribute to company-wide consensus on design flows, tools, and methodologies

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously

Relevant education and/or industry experience may be substituted as appropriate

Preferred

Master's or advanced degree in semiconductor engineering fields such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant disciplines

Previous experience in setting up and facilitating Design environments and maintaining design kit operability and coordination for cross functional design, modeling, and/or layout teams

Previous experience integrating PDK and/or ADK's to enable 2.5D or 3D SoC's

Experience evaluating EDA tool capabilities driving EDA vendors to make tool improvements or enable new functions to meet advanced or unique design requirements

Experience in a startup or research and development (R&D) environment