Digital Design Flow Architect — AI-Driven EDA & PPA

Socket.dev; Austin (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP in the United States (Austin) seeks a Digital Design Flow Architect to define and deploy end-to-end RTL-to-GDS flows for advanced process technologies. You will lead flow architecture, automation, and AI-enabled tooling to deliver repeatable, auditable, and scalable design workflows.

You will collaborate across design, CAD/methodology, foundry, and EDA vendors to improve PPA, reliability, and productivity, while guiding deployment and migration of flows to agentic architectures.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in end-to-end digital implementation, RTL-to-GDS, static design and timing analysis.
• Proven expertise in synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, clock-tree synthesis, and power optimization.
• Hands-on AI workflow development, including autonomous execution patterns and human-in-the-loop checks.
• Practical MCP experience, including tool exposure and JSON-RPC-style communication.
• Strong scripting skills in Tcl, Python, Perl or shell for flow automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect a modular RTL-to-GDS flow covering synthesis, place and route, timing/power closure, static verification, signoff, and GDS delivery.
• Enable agentic execution, AI-assisted debugging, design-space exploration, and automated analysis loops.
• Establish repeatable flow practices with configuration baselines, metrics, dashboards, and audit trails.
• Deploy flows for new process technologies in partnership with design, CAD/methodology, foundry, and EDA vendors.
• Improve productivity and PPA through automation and scalable reuse.

Skills

RTL-to-GDS flow

Synthesis

Static verification

PPA optimization

AI-enabled tooling

Automation scripting

Cross-functional leadership

EDA workflows

Education

B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering or CS

MS or PhD preferred

Tools

Synopsys

Cadence

Siemens EDA

Job description

NXP in the United States (Austin) seeks a Digital Design Flow Architect to define and deploy end-to-end RTL-to-GDS flows for advanced process technologies. You will lead flow architecture, automation, and AI-enabled tooling to deliver repeatable, auditable, and scalable design workflows.

You will collaborate across design, CAD/methodology, foundry, and EDA vendors to improve PPA, reliability, and productivity, while guiding deployment and migration of flows to agentic architectures.