Senior EDA Tools Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Architect, design, and implement a new chassis automation tool to meet requirements across multiple SoC programs, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Analyze chassis and interconnect architecture specifications, along with high-level SoC requirements, and build tooling and infrastructure to translate these requirements into generated outputs such as RTL, RDL, verification collateral, timing, and integration artifacts.
• Develop automation flows that convert architectural intent into concrete implementations, including topology generation, parameter derivation, register definitions, and associated collateral.
• Integrate with frontend and backend tool flows to enable robust validation and quality checks across generated artifacts (e.g., RTL, Verilog, SDC, RDL), ensuring correctness and consistency.
• Enable Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) optimization loops by building automation and analysis capabilities that evaluate design trade-offs and guide configuration decisions.
• Work closely with architecture, RTL design, verification, and SoC integration teams to ensure the tool accurately captures requirements and produces outputs that meet downstream expectations.
• Participate in and contribute to technical reviews with cross-functional stakeholders, incorporating feedback to improve tool capabilities, usability, and quality.
• Drive end-to-end execution from initial concepts and specifications through development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of the automation framework.
• Lead delivery of the tool and associated outputs to multiple internal customers, balancing competing requirements, schedules, and priorities while maintaining high quality.
• Collaborate across organizational boundaries and contribute beyond immediate role scope when needed to unblock execution and ensure overall program success.
• Mentor and guide engineers, helping establish best practices in software design, testing, and maintainability, and elevating overall team effectiveness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, with 9+ years of experience in CAD/EDA tooling, design automation, or semiconductor development.
• Strong proficiency in Python or similar language, with proven experience of building scalable, maintainable software systems and frameworks rather than one-off scripts.
• Solid understanding of digital SoC design concepts, including RTL hierarchy, synthesis flows, and parameterized IP design.
• Experience designing and validating structured schemas using formats such as JSON or YAML.
• Working knowledge of SystemVerilog to understand and validate generated design outputs.
• Experience with templating systems or code generation frameworks used for structured RTL or collateral generation.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including version control (Git), code reviews, unit/integration testing, and CI/CD practices.
• Preferred: Experience with Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures or high-performance interconnect protocols such as AXI, CHI, PCIe, UCIe, or similar.
• Familiarity with IP packaging, configuration, and integration methodologies, including standards such as IP-XACT.
• Exposure to industry EDA tools and design flows.
• Knowledge of graph-based algorithms or data structures relevant to topology generation, connectivity modeling, or routing problems.
• Prior experience working in a semiconductor product development environment, such as CAD, RTL design, or verification.
• Experience in GUI development
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with a track record of delivering high-quality solutions on schedule.

Tech Stack

• Python

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Remote work options