EDA or ASIC Engineer

Currently, we are looking for talented resources for one of our listed clients. If interested please reply to me with your updated resume or feel free to reach out to me for more details at (949) 535-1646

Title: EDA or ASIC Engineer
Location: SanJose, CA (5601 Great Oaks Parkway, San Jose Great Oaks Headquarters)
Duration: 6 months

Duties:

• You are responsible for the further development of concepts and methods for the EDA design environments with a focus on analog/mixed-signal ASIC design in advanced nodes.
• Solid understanding of PDK’s, effectively managing PDK libraries, and collaterals and driving the migration of design environments for incremental releases.
• Development of Calibre Physical Verification decks for CMOS PLANAR and FINFET technologies including DRC, LVS, PERC, FILL LPE, and shape generation decks and scripts.
• Layout Automation and Utilities development in Cadence SKILL/SKILL++.
• Development and validation of PV tools and flows like parasitic extraction, EMIR drop, and substrate noise analysis.
• Responsibilities will include testing, validation, customer support, and new tool/methods evaluations, development of methods and procedures for quality improvement, automation of deck/techFiles generation, and validation.
• Experience with Cadence custom IC Virtuoso platform to create layout test structures, validate verification rules, and troubleshoot errors.
• Experience with physical verification tools for DRC, LVS parasitic extraction, Calibre, starRC, ICV, etc is a plus.
• Working knowledge of revision control software (Git, Perforce, Subversion, Synchronicity, etc)
• Collaboration with the IT team to fulfill advanced node-specific requests (Linux, Exceed-on-Demand, Grid, VMWare-ESX, Storage-system, etc.).
• Ensuring the operation and support within the CAD / IT team for all ASIC designers worldwide.
• Managing the quality and ISO26262 requirements for the EDA tools, both for in-house developments and vendor products.

Skills:

• Personality and working practice: communicative, problem-solving mindset, responsible, initiative, flexible, and target-oriented. Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with changing priorities.

Experience and Knowledge:  

• Minimum 8+ years of development experience of Mixed Signal CAD design Flows from Front to Back, expert knowledge and experience of state-of-the-art design tools (EDA vendors e.g. Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor) and Technology and tools (Linux, script- and programming-languages as well as Cadence Skill), thorough understanding of Custom Analog development flow, design tools, and Software / Hardware environment

Qualifications: 

• Ability to identify and analyze tasks efficiently within the scope of your work and to develop pragmatic application-specific solutions; pronounced ability to communicate, relevant experience in the methodology of problem-solving as well as in the cooperation and leadership of international and cross-functional teams

Technical Skills: 

• Cadence SKILL
• Calibre SVRF/TVF
• Python
• Shell Scripting.

Education: 

• University degree (Master/PhD) in electrical engineering or a comparable subject

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R- Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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