Engineer IV

Duties:

You are responsible for the further development of concepts and methods for the EDA design environments with focus on analog / mixed signal ASIC design in advanced nodes.

Solid understanding of PDK's, effectively manage PDK libraries, collaterals and drive 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, to validate verification rules and to troubleshoot errors.

Experience with physical verification tools for DRC, LVS and parasitic extraction, Calibre, starRC, ICV etc is plus.

Working knowledge of revision control software (Git, Perforce, Subversion, Synchronicity, etc) Collaboration with the IT team to fulfil advanced nodes 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 in 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 Software-development-methodologies 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 analyse 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

Education: Doctoral Degree, Masters Degree