Physical Design Methodology CAD Engineer

San Diego Posted 4/13/2026 Leaves the board in 6 days

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- Participating and engaging with cross functional teams to tackle key physical design challenges.

- Developing innovative solutions in physical design and optimization space.

- Developing and supporting implementation flows for multiple projects and design teams.

- Developing and maintaining custom CAD tools for implementation and signoff.

- Creating flows to enable successful deployment of new technology nodes.

- Developing tools and methodologies for best-in-class PPA and productivity including ML based solutions.

- Use and leverage GenAI tools to develop GenAI applications to improve Design team productivity.

- Collaborating with other teams such as physical design verification, RC extraction, IR and static timing analysis (STA).

- Working directly with EDA tool vendors to resolve tool issues and identify areas for tool improvements.

Minimum Qualifications
Experience in CAD Tool, CAD flow or PD methodology.

Knowledge of Tcl, Python or Perl scripting languages.

Minimum requirement of BS+ 3 years of relevant industry experience

Preferred Qualifications
Hands on knowledge of industry standard PNR tools.

Hands on experience with high performance and low power implementation flows.

Understanding of some of the analysis involved in Physical Design - extraction, timing, noise, physical verification, EMIR.