Design Methodology & Automation Senior Manager

Advanced Micro Devices; Penang; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading semiconductor company is seeking a CAD Manager in Penang, Malaysia to lead the CAD infrastructure team and manage IC design projects. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in silicon EDA, strong leadership skills, and proficiency in TCL and Python scripting. This position offers an opportunity to shape critical IC design workflows and collaborate with various teams to optimize performance and quality.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• 10+ years of silicon EDA and/or digital ASIC design experience.
• Experience with Virtuoso-based custom layout tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the CAD infrastructure team for IC design projects.
• Establish and maintain standardized design flows and methodologies.
• Develop tool flows methodologies on digital back-end domains.

Skills

Silicon EDA experience

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Scripting languages (TCL, Python)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Design Compiler

IC Compiler

Cadence Virtuoso

Job description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING

We care deeply about transforming lives with AMD technology to enrich our industry, our communities, and the world. Our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences – the building blocks for the data center, artificial intelligence, PCs, gaming and embedded. Underpinning our mission is the AMD culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges. We strive for execution excellence while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.

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THE ROLE:

As CAD Manager you will be responsible for leading and optimizing the EDA environment for Project CAD team in the Adaptive & Embedded Computing Group (AECG). You will oversee the complete SCH-to-GDS flow, manage tool deployments, and drive methodology development across multiple semiconductor projects. This is an opportunity to shape the technical direction of critical IC design workflows and lead a team of skilled CAD engineers. You will advise on tools selection, and interface with various EDA tool vendors and foundries to run the EDA tools, PDKs and other files necessary for the Silicon Development Team to operate efficiently. You will be responsible for defining and creating a unified environment that sets the versions of the tools, PDK and design for every individual chip in development. Additionally, you will interact with the various Silicon development teams who will be requesting newer versions of the tools, and raise trouble tickets with CAD vendors as needed.

THE PERSON:

The ideal candidate has experience leading others in technical and managerial settings. You also have excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and manage the CAD infrastructure team supporting multiple IC design projects
• Establish and maintain standardized design flows and methodologies
• Implement and support customized CAD flows for Fabric design groups
• Enable the team in meeting the design and development targets by working closely with external tool vendors
• Develop tools flows methodologies on digital back-end domains, sign-off flows for timing, power, EM/IR, DRC/LVS/DFM, etc.
• Improve engineering efficiency while improving design quality in IP release process
• Be single point contact for bugs and issues for custom and analog physical design team
• Build flow in TCL, Python to ensure quality and faster executions
• Understand different methodologies used across industry to adopt best practices
• Leverage and deploy AMD AI systems to design teams

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years of silicon EDA and/or digital ASIC design experience
• PPA Power Performance Area Optimization
• Virtuoso based custom Layout tools and flows
• Calibre extraction flows, Totem & Redhawk for EM/IR
• TCL, Python, PERL, or other scripting languages
• 2+ years in one or more of these tools: Design compiler, IC Compiler, Fusion Compiler, Cadence Virtuoso and Custom Compiler
• Physical aspect of VLSI designs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering.

LOCATION:

Penang, Malaysia

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