IC Design Automation Engineer
Website Agile Analog
What you will be doing
- Managing and automating the on-boarding activities of PDKs
- Managing and automating EDA environments and our internal tool integration
- Managing license server(s) and ensuring continuity in tool availability
- Supporting analog design engineers with their design automation queries and issues
- Interfacing and understanding a design environment need and helping software engineers scope and develop methods of improving the design process
- Helping to ensure the customer delivery process is conducive to an extremely high standard
- Capture and provide feedback on design practice improvements
- Documentation for best practices that provide clear guidelines for users to remain productive and informed
- Debugging issues with design environments and front-line analog design support
- Developing interfaces for designers as well as industry standard EDA tools, design rules, design kits and configuration files
- Working constructively and collaboratively across the company as part of cross-functional software and IP development teams
Requirements
What we need from you:
- A systematic approach to improving design efficiency and ensuring design quality safety
- Proven industry experience in analog design automation for EDA tools from companies such as Cadence, Synopsys and Mentor Graphics
- Proven industy experience with PDKs from multiple foundries such as TSMC, Global Foundries including environment setups, PDK configuration and model quality checks
- Strong experience in behavioural circuit modelling
- A rigorous approach to design verification, review and documentation
- An understanding of the importance of good physical implementation, together with knowledge of parasitic degradation mechanisms
- A can-do attitude with an enthusiastic team spirit
- Good communication skills in English
- Expert knowledge of Cadence and/or design tools and environment
Even better if you have:
- FinFet and other deep-sub-micron CMOS process knowledge
- Macro-level experience, including integration, physical verification and tape-out
- Experience in analog design
- Programming experience in Skill/Ocean, Python, C++ etc.
- Team leadership experience
Benefits
What we offer in return:
- As well as the opportunity to really contribute to getting things done we also offer a comprehensive salary and benefits package including:
- A friendly, supportive and inclusive working environment
- Flexible work hours to fit around your personal commitments
- We consider individual requirements to work remotely with home set up assistance provided
- Professional development and professional society membership
- Company share options
- 25 days’ annual leave with the option to purchase additional days
- Company pension scheme (with a salary sacrifice option)
- Private health insurance (including optical and dental cover)
- Life Assurance
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme – free wellbeing and health services
If the above role matches your experience, skills and motivations then we would love to hear from you.
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