Senior Staff CAD Engineer

Fox Point Recruitment LLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a qualified individual for a position focused on developing next-generation automated design flows and add-on tools. Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and substantial industry experience. Key responsibilities include maintaining PDKs for high-speed design projects and collaborating with design teams on various aspects of design flows. Strong knowledge of CAD tools and excellent communication skills are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of relevant industry experience or 3-5 years with a Masters/PhD.
• Experience maintaining analog/mixed-signal design flows for advanced technologies.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Setup and support PDKs for high-speed design projects.
• Solve design flow related issues with EDA vendors.
• Collaborate on parasitic extraction and physical verification topics.
• Evaluate AMS design tools and present findings.
• Develop custom circuit checks and QA flows.
• Create automation scripts for efficiency.

Skills

Design and CAD knowledge

Problem-solving in design flow

Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Automation scripting

Programming skills in TCL, Python, Perl, SKILL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Masters/PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso

Synopsys Custom Compiler

Cadence Quantus

Siemens Calibre

ADE, AMS Designer, Spectre, PrimeSim, AFS

Job description

Location

Singapore

Available Location

International

Sponsorship possibility

Yes

Are you ready toplay a leading role on developing next-generation automated design flow and its add-on tools? We have anopportunity for youto use your extensive design and CAD knowledge to participate in defining the whole organization's design infrastructure, methodology and workflows.

What you will do

1. Setup, maintain and support PDKs for CMOS FinFET and BiCMOS high speed design projects.
2. Work closely with analog design teams and EDA vendors in solving design flow related issues.
3. Collaborate with TCAD and foundry technology teams on parasitic extraction and physical verification and EMIR related topics.
4. Periodically evaluate/benchmark AMS design tools and present to design teams.
5. Define, develop and validate custom circuit checks and model QA flows.
6. Create automation scripts to improve design/verification team's efficiency.

Education/Years of Experience

1. Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
2. Eight to Tenyears of relevant industry experience, or a Masters/PhD in Electrical Engineering with 3–5 years of related experience.

Industry Experience

1. Experience in setting up and maintaining analog/mixed-signal design flows for advanced FinFET process technologies.
2. Proficient in industry standard design development tools like Cadence Virtuoso and Synopsys Custom Compiler.
3. Good understanding of parasitic extraction tools like Cadence Quantus and Physical verification tools like Siemens Calibre.
4. Good understanding of industry standard analog/mixed-signal simulation tools such as ADE, AMS Designer, Spectre, PrimeSim, AFS, etc.
5. Good understanding of AMS flows including design entry, parasitic extraction, EMIR, Physical Verification and post-layout simulation.
6. Programming skills in TCL, Python, Perl, SKILL, is a plus.
7. Good written and verbal communication skills along with the ability to collaborate well with cross-functional teams.