EDA / CAD Engineer

Future Ventures; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mythic is seeking an experienced CAD/EDA engineer to advance a robust design environment for IC designers in a fast-growing setting. You will lead tool upgrades, manage PDKs/IPs, advise on methodology, and contribute automated tooling to accelerate development cycles.

The role requires deep Cadence experience, analog/mixed-signal design expertise, and strong scripting capability to streamline EDA flows and license, build, and compute infrastructure support.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Cadence tool flow is required.
• Experience with analog/mixed-signal design tools (Virtuoso, AMS, Spectre).
• Proficiency in layout/signoff tools (PVS/Pegasus, Calibre).
• Synthesis, APR, and physical design (Genus, Innovus / DDI).
• Revision control experience and methodology recommendations (Perforce/VersIC).
• Internal and external IP management experience.
• Ability to manage multiple PDKs simultaneously.
• Familiarity with TSMC and GF preferred.
• Scripting & automation: Python, Perl, Tcl, Bash, SKILL; automating EDA flows and environment setup.
• License management: FlexNet/FlexLM administration and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Support IC design and IT leadership with multiple tool and infrastructure upgrades.
• Manage several repositories of PDKs, IPs, and multiple tools from multiple vendors.
• Advise design IT leadership with methodology enhancements and future planning.
• Keep up with advancements in industry tools that are relevant to our goals.
• Where necessary or advantageous, develop custom tools/scripts/plug-ins that are easily adopted by users.

Skills

Cadence tool flow

Analog/mixed-signal

Layout signoff

Synthesis/PD

Revision control

IP management

PDK management

Scripting/automation

License management

Linux/Unix

Tools

Virtuoso

AMS

Spectre

PVS

Pegasus

Calibre

Genus

Innovus

DDI

Xcelium

Job description

Mythic is looking for an experienced CAD/EDA engineer to build a truly robust design environment and support multiple disciplines of IC designers. Mythic takes EDA methodology and tooling seriously, and is poised for rapid growth. You will be a critical part of making sure our foundation is strong and capable of enhancing our pace of development.

What you'll do

Support IC design and IT leadership with multiple tool and infrastructure upgrades

Manage several repositories of PDKs, IPs, and multiple tools from multiple vendors

Advise design IT leadership with methodology enhancements and future planning

Keep up with advancements in industry tools that are relevant to our goals

Where necessary or advantageous, develop custom tools/scripts/plug-ins that are easily adopted by users

What you'll bring

Deep understanding of the Cadence tool flow is required

Analog / Mixed-signal design tools (Virtuoso, AMS, Spectre)

Layout/signoff (PVS/Pegasus, Calibre)

Synthesis/APR/Physical design (Genus, Innovus / DDI)

Revision control experience and methodology recommendations (perforce/versIC)

Internal and external IP management

Supporting multiple PDKs simultaneously

Familiarity with TSMC and GF preferred

Scripting & automation: Python, Perl, Tcl, Bash/Shell, SKILL; automating EDA flows, tool setup, regression runs, log parsing, environment configuration, and design-data processing.

License management: FlexNet/FlexLM administration and troubleshooting, including license-server configuration, lmstat/lmutil diagnostics, feature availability, checkout failures, queueing, utilization monitoring, and vendor-daemon issues.

EDA infrastructure support: Linux/Unix environment troubleshooting, LSF/Slurm/Grid Engine compute-farm integration, environment modules, tool-version management, and debugging interactions between EDA applications, compute infrastructure, and license servers.

CAD flow development: Development and support of scripted flows integrating tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Xcelium, Synopsys, or Siemens EDA with internal automation, regression, and verification infrastructure.

Demonstrated history of solving problems for EDA users

Nice-to-haves:

Remote computing support experience (ETX)

Experience supporting engineering across multiple international locations

Some degree of sysadmin ability

Build systems: Make/GNU Make, CMake, custom Makefile-based flows; maintaining build dependencies, environment setup, and reproducible EDA/CAD workflows.

CI/CD & regression infrastructure: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions; developing and supporting automated regression, validation, build, and deployment pipelines for EDA tools and design flows.

At Mythic, we foster a collaborative and respectful environment where people can do their best work. We hire smart, capable individuals, provide the tools and support they need, and trust them to deliver. Our team brings a wide range of experiences and perspectives, which we see as a strength in solving hard problems together. We value professionalism, creativity, and integrity, and strive to make Mythic a place where every employee feels they belong and can contribute meaningfully.

Mythic is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. It ensures equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

150000 - 260000 USD a year