Principal Front-End Design Automation Architect

Ampere; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 182,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium medical insurance

401K retirement plan

Unlimited flextime

Job summary

Ampere, a semiconductor design company, seeks a Principal Front-End Design Automation (EDA/DevOps) Engineer to drive pre-silicon productivity through scalable automation and platform capabilities. You will guide EDA tooling, collaborate with RTL teams, and architect internal Ampere automation to shorten design cycles.

Join a cross-functional group spanning hardware, software, and IT, and help scale infrastructure for AI-enhanced design and verification across on-prem and cloud environments at

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Front-End Design Automation (EDA/DevOps) experience in technology (semiconductor preferred).
• Strong Python or Perl scripting skills.
• Deep SystemVerilog expertise with DV/UVM/Coverage/Simulation/Debug and RTL static checks (Lint/CDC/RDC/UPF).
• Solid IP and SoC RTL design and verification workflow experience.
• Experience with HPC scheduling/workloads (LSF/SLURM) for EDA tasks.
• Desirable: Git/Perforce, CI/CD, cloud computing, and RDBMS knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert guidance for EDA tools and Ampere flows to raise productivity and reliability.
• Collaborate with RTL design and verification teams to deploy improved workflows.
• Architect, document, deploy, and maintain custom Ampere automation and services for RTL design/verification.
• Enable and support EDA tools used for RTL design/verification (SystemVerilog, Lint, CDC, RDC, UPF).
• Partner with IT/EDA vendors to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions.
• Drive AI-enabled automation to accelerate analysis and issue resolution.

Skills

EDA/DevOps

Python/Perl scripting

SystemVerilog

DV/UVM/Coverage/Simulation/Debug

RTL design verification workflows

HPC scheduling (LSF/SLURM)

Git/Perforce

CI/CD

Cloud computing

RDBMS

Education

BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

PhD in relevant field

Tools

Git

Perforce

LSF/SLURM

CI/CD tooling

Cloud platforms

RDBMS

Job description

Ampere, a semiconductor design company, seeks a Principal Front-End Design Automation (EDA/DevOps) Engineer to drive pre-silicon productivity through scalable automation and platform capabilities. You will guide EDA tooling, collaborate with RTL teams, and architect internal Ampere automation to shorten design cycles.

Join a cross-functional group spanning hardware, software, and IT, and help scale infrastructure for AI-enhanced design and verification across on-prem and cloud environments at