RFIC EDA Engineer: Analog & Mixed-Signal Tooling

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Employee shuttle

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an EDA Engineer (RFIC Engineering) to support and improve the IC design environment used by silicon design, layout, verification, physical design, and methodology teams. The role focuses on reliable EDA tools, reproducible PDK flows, and productive designers across analog/RF/mixed-signal and digital silicon workflows.

The engineer will partner with design teams, other EDA engineers, IT, foundries and vendors to triage production issues, improve tool flows, and develop

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science.
• 2+ years of experience in EDA/CAD support, IC design flow development, silicon design.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day EDA/CAD workflows for RFIC and silicon engineering teams.
• Assist with PDK installation, qualification, version tracking, release notes, and deployment support.
• Build lightweight automation in Python, Tcl, SKILL, shell, Perl, Makefile, or similar languages.
• Maintain runbooks and Confluence documentation for common EDA flows.
• Triagte issues using reproducible debug practices and improve tool flows.

Skills

Python scripting

Linux

EDA tools

IC design knowledge

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CE/CS

Master’s degree in EE/CE/CS or related field

Tools

Cadence Virtuoso/Spectre

Siemens Calibre

Synopsys/Cadence digital tools

Keysight ADS

EMX/HFSS

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an EDA Engineer (RFIC Engineering) to support and improve the IC design environment used by silicon design, layout, verification, physical design, and methodology teams. The role focuses on reliable EDA tools, reproducible PDK flows, and productive designers across analog/RF/mixed-signal and digital silicon workflows.

The engineer will partner with design teams, other EDA engineers, IT, foundries and vendors to triage production issues, improve tool flows, and develop