Design Automation Engineer | TFM/EDA Specialist (Hybrid)

Intel Corporation; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Intel Foundry Automation - Government Programs is seeking a seasoned Silicon Design Automation Engineer to install, maintain, and support design environments, scripts, and compute resources for Intel's PDKs used by external foundry customers.

The role requires collaboration with PDK/library and flow teams, engineers, and EC to ensure tool availability, scalable automation, and smooth adoption of new tools and methods across tapeout workflows.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain a US Government Security Clearance TS/SCI.
• BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 1+ years’ experience or MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 2+ years’ experience in front-end and back-end design tools and flows.
• Experience in EDA tools and methodologies, including debugging and problem-solving.
• Experience in physical design, optimization, and tools flows and methodology (TFM).
• Experience with Verilog/VHDL, Tcl, Perl, Python scripting.
• Linux Experience: bash, tcsh.

Responsibilities

• Resolve designer’s tool / methodology issues on the path to TapeOut.
• Provide support for design ramp up through training / documentation.
• Interact with EDA providers and ensure required tools features are available for the projects with high quality.
• Closely partner with PDK/library experts, flow development teams, as well as with product design teams
• Collaborate with EC to provision adequate compute capacity and help debug any associated issues.
• Create automation (scripts, checkers, etc.) for installation of design environment (PDKs, EDA tools, licenses, etc.) to simplify and accelerate design processes.
• Support the integration of new tools and methods into existing design workflows, ensuring seamless adoption and scalability.

Skills

EDA tools

Python scripting

Verilog/VHDL

Linux

Education

BS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

Cheetah

Job description

Intel Foundry Automation - Government Programs is seeking a seasoned Silicon Design Automation Engineer to install, maintain, and support design environments, scripts, and compute resources for Intel's PDKs used by external foundry customers.

The role requires collaboration with PDK/library and flow teams, engineers, and EC to ensure tool availability, scalable automation, and smooth adoption of new tools and methods across tapeout workflows.