CAD Engineer, Logic Equivalence & ECO

imary responsibilities will include: - Developing, maintaining, and enhancing CAD applications for logical equivalence. - Supporting frontend design closure , ECO verification, and flow signoff. - Triaging and solving CAD flow problems, and working around EDA tool problems. - Working directly with EDA vendors to resolve tool issues, and identifying enhancements. - Working directly with EDA vendors to architect new tool features and methodologies. - Collaborating with other CAD engineers, including synthesis, DV, analytics, and signoff to build integrated flows. - Participating and engaging with cross functional teams to tackle key logic equivalence challenges. - Using ML and GenAI based solutions to improve CAD applications.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with ASIC Design EDA Tools, CAD flows, and/or ASIC design methodologies.

• Knowledge of Tcl, Python or Perl scripting languages.

• Knowledge of Verilog or SystemVerilog coding for hardware design or verification.

• Minimum requirement of BS and 3+ years of relevant industry experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in scripting languages, such as Python, Perl, and TCL

• Excellent communication skills, including previous customer support experience

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including collaboration, inclusivity, active listening, and a growth mindset.

• Expertise in industry standard equivalence checking EDA tools

• Expertise in industry standard ASIC synthesis EDA tools

• Understanding of frontend digital design methodologies, including simulation, synthesis, RTL linting, low power verification, BIST, DFT, design integration, and frontend signoff.

• Experience architecting and implementing CAD flows

• Comfort within Linux/Unix environments.

• Understanding of software engineering practices (agile, code reviews, unit level testing, regression testing).

• Familiarity with current Gen AI research in one of the following areas: RAG, Semantic Search, or Prompt Engineering is a plus

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