Design Automation Engineer (tfm/eda)

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · California, Folsom, United States +3

This role is for a Design Automation Engineer focused on supporting EDA tools and Intel's PDK for external Foundry customers. Responsibilities include installation, maintenance, and technical support of design and compute environments, as well as creating automation scripts to streamline design processes. The role requires experience with front-end and back-end design tools, flows, and methodologies, along with scripting skills in languages like Tcl, Perl, and Python.

What you'd actually do

  1. Resolve designer's tool / methodology issues on the path to TapeOut.
  2. Provide support for design ramp up through training / documentation.
  3. Interact with EDA providers and ensure required tools features are available for the projects with high quality.
  4. Closely partner with PDK/library experts, flow development teams, as well as with product design teams
  5. Collaborate with EC to provision adequate compute capacity and help debug any associated issues.

Skills

Required

  • Electrical or Computer Engineering degree
  • 3+ years' experience (BS) or 2+ years' experience (MS)
  • Experience in front-end and back-end design tools and flows
  • Experience in EDA tools and methodologies
  • Experience in physical design, optimization, and tools flows and methodology (TFM)
  • Verilog/ VHDL
  • Tcl, Perl, Python scripting
  • Linux Experience: bash, tcsh

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience of industry standard front-end and back-end EDA tool installs
  • Experience in installation of foundry PDK and flows (Cheetah, etc.)
  • Debugging and design automation

What the JD emphasized

  • US Citizenship required.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain US Government Security Clearance TS/SCI.