Director, AI-Driven Digital Design Flow

NXP Semiconductors; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors is seeking a Technical Director, Digital Design Methodology & Flow Architecture to define and deploy a repeatable RTL-to-GDS flow for advanced process technologies. You will lead architecture, automation, and AI-enabled debugging across EDA workflows.

The role requires deep hands-on experience with RTL-to-GDS, timing/power closure, formal verification, MCP integration, and cross-functional leadership to transform flows and improve productivity across teams and nodes.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in end-to-end digital implementation, RTL-to-GDS, static design and timing analysis, formal/static verification, signoff, ECO, and PPA closure.
• Ability to translate design challenges into repeatable methodology improvements and reusable automation.
• Experience defining and executing deployment and migration strategies for agentic flows.

Responsibilities

• Architect a modular RTL-to-GDS flow supporting 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 for EDA workflows.
• Establish repeatable and traceable flow practices, including standard recipes, configuration baselines, metrics, dashboards, audit trails, regression checks, and release management.
• Deploy flows for new process technologies in partnership with design, CAD/methodology, foundry, and EDA vendor teams.
• Improve productivity, turnaround time, quality-of-results, and PPA through automation, methodology tuning, and scalable reuse.

Skills

End-to-end digital implementation

Agentic AI workflow development

Automation scripting

Cross-functional leadership

Education

B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

Tcl scripting

Python scripting

Perl scripting

Shell scripting

JSON-RPC

MCP integration

EDA tools integration

Job description

NXP Semiconductors is seeking a Technical Director, Digital Design Methodology & Flow Architecture to define and deploy a repeatable RTL-to-GDS flow for advanced process technologies. You will lead architecture, automation, and AI-enabled debugging across EDA workflows.

The role requires deep hands-on experience with RTL-to-GDS, timing/power closure, formal verification, MCP integration, and cross-functional leadership to transform flows and improve productivity across teams and nodes.