Staff PDK Engineer

Job Summary:

The PDK team works with internal and external foundries to develop and deploy high-quality PDKs on both mature and advanced nodes. This global, dynamic and fast-paced team interfaces directly with foundries and EDA tool vendors, as well as internally through foundry tech teams, packaging teams and design and layout communities to provide highly integrated, state of the art PDKs and PDK flows/solutions. The PDK is a core and essential part of all our design flows from concept to tapeout for every project.
The PDK team is looking for an Engineer based out of India (Bangalore) to enhance the team s support for our business units and take over critical activities.

Install/customize foundry PDKs and provide support for various product groups. The role requires strong skills in several aspects of PDK, EDA Tools and flow development. The new hire is expected to:

• Develop, review, update and release foundry PDK and design methodologies for various business units.
• Support circuit design and layout team with PDK related tasks such as design migrations, simulation, physical verification (DRC/LVS/ERC), EMIR, and parasitic extraction (PEX/QRC/StarRC).
• Provide CAD support to designers in troubleshooting project setup, design environment configuration, tool integration, and day-to-day environment issues to ensure a stable and productive design flow.
• Own technically complex PDK/CAD problems from investigation through resolution.
• Ensure PDK is compatible with the latest EDA tools and provide feedback/bug reports to EDA vendors as required.
• Exercise creativity to innovate new processes and procedures to achieve solutions to complex problems quickly.
• Maintain skills to ensure competence to perform assigned responsibilities. Qualifications

• Good knowledge of CMOS fundamentals with background in electrical engineering or semiconductor physics.
• Deep knowledge of PDKs and their internal components: PCell, CDF, Tech files, DRC/LVS/PEX etc.
• Expertise in Cadence custom IC Virtuoso platform, ADE, Virtuoso-L and Virtuoso-XL, schematic capture, and layout concepts.
• Familiarity with EMIR tools such as Voltus/Voltus-Fi, Redhawk etc.
• Expertise in programming languages such as SKILL/SKILL++, Tcl, Python, and shell scripting.
• Understanding of design management systems, licensing & LSF from a user perspective
• Strong support and debugging capability.

Preferred/Desired Skills:

• Master s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience.
• Digital design flow and criteria for sign-off.
• Familiarity with Cadence Xcelium.