Senior EDA / CAD Engineer

About the role

Envision Employment Solutions is recruiting a Senior EDA / CAD Engineer for a partner IT services and IT consulting company. The engineer owns the EDA flows and CAD environment behind full SoC development, from licensing and compute farms to CI/CD and AI-assisted tooling, so design teams can focus on the chip. The workplace is on site.

Key responsibilities

• Define, deploy and maintain EDA flows for simulation, synthesis, place and route, DFT and signoff
• Evaluate, benchmark and qualify new tools and releases from Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA and Arteris
• Design and run Linux compute farms, distributed storage (NFS and parallel file systems), backup and disaster recovery
• Manage license servers (FlexLM/Flexera), licensing strategy and capacity planning
• Build automation for tool installation, regressions and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Integrate AI and LLM-based tooling into workflows such as debug assistance, log analysis and knowledge retrieval
• Act as the main technical contact with EDA vendors and report on tool performance and usage
• Support security and compliance requirements, including ISO 27001 environments

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in EDA or CAD engineering for semiconductor design
• Strong experience with full EDA flows and tools from Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens EDA
• Hands-on experience with EDA licensing, tool versioning and release management
• Solid background in Linux compute farms, distributed storage and CI/CD
• Good understanding of RTL design, verification and physical design flows
• Practical experience with AI or LLM tooling integration is a strong plus
• Knowledge of ISO 26262 or DO-254 is a plus

Required skills

• EDA tools: Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, Arteris
• Linux compute farms, NFS and parallel file systems
• CI/CD with Jenkins and GitLab CI
• Scripting in Python, Perl, Shell and Tcl

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