Senior Python CAD Engineer - RTL Automation

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Cork; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary, stock and performance related

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Employee stock purchase scheme

Matching pension scheme

Education Assistance

Relocation and immigration support

Life, Medical, Income and Travel Ins

Subsidised gym membership

Bicycle purchase scheme

Employee run clubs

Job summary

QT Technologies Ireland Limited in Cork is seeking a Senior Software CAD Engineer to build Python-based tools for RTL quality and design automation. You will enhance automation, debugging, and reporting across complex SoC development environments, collaborating with design, verification, CAD and infrastructure teams.

The role emphasizes developing robust tooling, improving infrastructure, and delivering reliable workflows for RTL development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field with 2+ years ASIC design/verification/integration experience.
• Master's degree with 1+ year ASIC design/verification/integration experience.
• PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field is also considered.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Python-based software tools for design automation and RTL quality checks.
• Build automation for configuring, launching, monitoring, debugging, and reporting design flow results.
• Support quality checks across RTL design areas such as clock-domain crossing, reset-domain crossing, low-power verification, synthesis readiness, lint, and design rule checking.
• Improve infrastructure for configuration management, run setup, result tracking, waiver handling, reporting, and dashboards.
• Debug issues across software infrastructure, generated scripts, configuration files, design inputs, and EDA tool execution.
• Collaborate with design, verification, CAD, and infrastructure teams to support project execution and design quality closure.
• Improve code quality, test coverage, documentation, error handling, and developer workflows.
• Develop unit and integration tests for automation scripts and flow infrastructure.
• Identify and drive improvements to existing methodology, QA processes, execution environments, and user support models.

Skills

Python

Automation

CAD infrastructure

Linux

Git

pytest

YAML

JSON

Debugging

RTL quality

Design automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Python testing tools

Mypy

Black

Isort

Perl

Tcl/tcsh

Job description

QT Technologies Ireland Limited in Cork is seeking a Senior Software CAD Engineer to build Python-based tools for RTL quality and design automation. You will enhance automation, debugging, and reporting across complex SoC development environments, collaborating with design, verification, CAD and infrastructure teams.

The role emphasizes developing robust tooling, improving infrastructure, and delivering reliable workflows for RTL development.