OLIX
Lead CAD & Design Enablement Engineer
Austin, TX
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
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About the role
- We are seeking a CAD Engineering Lead to support a fast-paced silicon engineering organization spanning both digital and analog design disciplines.
- This role is responsible for maintaining and improving the EDA environment, enabling efficient design workflows, developing automation solutions, and serving as a key technical partner to engineering teams throughout the chip development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary point of contact for day-to-day CAD, EDA, and design environment support for digital and analog engineering teams.
- Maintain, enhance, and troubleshoot design, verification, implementation, analog, and signoff flows across the silicon development lifecycle.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain automation, scripting, and infrastructure solutions that improve engineering productivity, design quality, and execution efficiency.
- Partner closely with digital design, verification, physical design, analog, and systems engineering teams to understand requirements, address challenges, and continuously improve design methodologies.
- Evaluate, qualify, and deploy new EDA tool releases, methodologies, and best practices to improve team effectiveness and design quality.
- Work directly with EDA vendors to investigate technical issues, drive issue resolution, and influence future tool capabilities and enhancements.
- Partner with IT, infrastructure, and operations teams to develop and maintain a reliable, scalable, and high-performance computing environment that supports demanding EDA workloads.
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize compute, storage, network, and licensing resources to maximize engineering productivity, improve resource utilization, and reduce infrastructure bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with IT teams on infrastructure planning, capacity forecasting, deployment of new technologies, and resolution of system-level issues impacting design and verification workflows.
- Create and maintain documentation, training materials, and support processes that enable efficient onboarding and effective use of design tools and methodologies.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience supporting semiconductor design teams in a CAD, EDA, design methodology, or silicon infrastructure role.
- Strong understanding of digital and/or analog IC design flows, including design entry, simulation, verification, implementation, and signoff methodologies.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Tcl, Shell, Perl, or similar languages.
Skills
- Experience with EDA license management, job scheduling systems, and compute infrastructure used for semiconductor development.
- Self-motivated, customer-focused, and capable of operating independently while collaborating across a broad engineering organization.
Compensation
- Commensurate with your experience, skills, and location
Benefits
- Employer-contributed retirement plans to help you build long-term financial security
- Meaningful stock options.
- To minimise your commute and maximise your life, we offer an annual Living-Local Bonus if your residence is within 20 minutes of the office
Visa & Work Authorization
- export control regulations, candidates' eligibility to work at OLIX depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status
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