Manager, Eda Tools and Relationships

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

Manager for EDA tools and relationships, focusing on integrating and evaluating AI capabilities within circuit design workflows, leading a team, and managing vendor partnerships.

What you'd actually do

  1. Explore and guide the use of Agentic-AI capabilities in EDA workflows where they improve efficiency.
  2. Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers with direct reports focused on EDA workflows and tool enablement.
  3. Define and drive strategy for evaluating, integrating, deploying, and supporting third-party EDA tools across the circuit group.
  4. Own key EDA vendor relationships, including technical engagement, addressing customer concerns, roadmap alignment, and ongoing partnership management.
  5. Drive internal adoption of new workflows through communication, training, and integration.

Skills

Required

  • BSEE, BSCE, or equivalent international education or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in circuit design methodology, CAD/EDA enablement, or related engineering infrastructure roles.
  • Minimum 3 plus years of Management Experience
  • Prior experience leading projects or teams, including direct people management.
  • Hands-on experience with Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys custom design environments such as Virtuoso, Solido Design Environment, and Custom Compiler.
  • Strong communication skills and proven ability to work across internal teams and external vendors.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Cadence ADE and experience with transient simulators such as alps, hspice, primesim, or spectrex.
  • Familiarity with various other EDA tool such as Totem, HFSS, thermal mechanical solver, matlab, and Solido Design Environment
  • Experience with layout viewing and manipulation.
  • Experience influencing EDA vendor roadmaps or leading strategic technical partnerships.
  • Exposure to AI algorithms, AI-assisted flows, or emerging agentic EDA methodologies.

What the JD emphasized

  • Agentic-AI capabilities

Other signals

  • Agentic-AI capabilities in EDA workflows
  • AI-assisted flows
  • emerging agentic EDA methodologies