Director of AI-Driven Digital Design Flows

NXP Semiconductors; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors in San Jose, CA, seeks a Technical Director for Digital Design Methodology and Flow Architecture. You will define a repeatable end-to-end RTL-to-GDS flow, combining synthesis, P&R, timing/power closure, static verification, and GDS delivery with agentic AI-enabled tooling.

You will lead cross-functional teams to establish repeatable practices, baselines, dashboards, and governance, driving productivity and PPA improvements across advanced process technologies.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, CS or related field; MS/PhD preferred.
• Director-level technical leader of digital design, CAD/methodology, EDA implementation, or flow architecture experience.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional flow transformation across domains or nodes.

Responsibilities

• Architect a modular RTL-to-GDS flow for 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

RTL-to-GDS

AI workflows

Python scripting

EDA tooling

Automation

Education

B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related

M.S./Ph.D. preferred

Tools

Synopsys

Cadence

Siemens EDA

Job description

NXP Semiconductors in San Jose, CA, seeks a Technical Director for Digital Design Methodology and Flow Architecture. You will define a repeatable end-to-end RTL-to-GDS flow, combining synthesis, P&R, timing/power closure, static verification, and GDS delivery with agentic AI-enabled tooling.

You will lead cross-functional teams to establish repeatable practices, baselines, dashboards, and governance, driving productivity and PPA improvements across advanced process technologies.