CAD/EDA Engineer I, CAD/EDA Engineer II, Senior CAD/EDA Engineer, Texas Institute for Electronics Full-time

CAD/EDA Engineer Positions

The Texas Institute for Electronics (TIE) is a public-private partnership of preeminent semiconductor systems and defense electronics companies, national labs, and academic institutions. Our mission is to advance the state-of-the-art in critical semiconductor domains such as advanced packaging, and in the process to help restore U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. We are developing cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing equipment and processes that will define future roadmaps of semiconductor logic, memory, heterogenous integration, chip cooling, etc. We are seeking a number of motivated individuals to join our team and help us in achieving the above goals.

TIE is part of the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a global leader in technology innovation and engineering education for over a century. With 11 undergraduate and 13 graduate programs, over 20 research centers and a faculty community that boasts one of the highest number of National Academy of Engineering members among U.S. universities, Texas Engineering has launched some of the nation's most accomplished leaders and pioneered world-changing solutions in virtually every industry, from space exploration to energy to health care. Situated in the heart of Austin — named “America's Coolest City” by Expedia and “The Best Place to Live in the U.S.” by U.S. News and World Report — the Cockrell School embodies the city's innovative spirit. Major companies with Austin campuses, such as Dell, National Instruments, Apple, IBM, Samsung, Google, Tesla, and many others, continue to recruit Cockrell School students at a remarkable rate, launching thousands of successful careers and developing Texas Engineers into industry leaders.

At UT Austin, we say “What starts here changes the world.” As a member of the university community, you will be part of an organization that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will have meaning and make a difference not only in the lives of our faculty, staff, and students, but also those who are impacted by our first class academic and research programs.

UT Austin, recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers, provides outstanding employee benefits and total rewards packages that include:

• Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
• Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
• Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
• Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with 7.75% employer matching funds
• Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
• Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
• Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities
• Tuition assistance
• Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets
• Free access to UT Austin's libraries and museums with staff ID card
• Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card

Purpose

Implement automation and workflows for custom integrated circuit design and 3DHI modeling across the wide range of EDA IC design tools. Develop and maintain automation scripts in Linux environments, as well as Windows applications. Define design flows and provide user support for TIE's Assembly Design Kits (ADK's), while helping to ensure interoperability with our partner PDK's. Work closely with EDA vendors and our internal Design and Processes engineering teams to develop and define TIE's preferred tool sets that will enable 3DHI system design for our potential customer base and our internal design/modeling teams. Senior positions will help set TIE's overall EDA/Design methodologies and process strategies.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain scripts/automation to assure compatibility and integration with wide range of EDA IC design/modeling tools to enable simulation/emulation, physical verification, parasitic extraction, and 3DHI modeling.
• Help develop, deploy, and maintain TIE's ADK (Assembly Design Kits).
• Maintain interoperability and compatibility of TIE's design kits with our partner PDK's, our internal PDK's & ADK's, and vendor EDA tool revisions.
• Developing innovative physical design place & route methodology and flow solutions to meet current and future design challenges.
• Help establish and validate physical design methodologies, flow automation and infrastructure for our internal 3D heterogenous micro-system modeling teams.
• Automation of Test structure layout to help drive next generation processing capabilities across a wide range of materials.
• Support TIE's standard cell offerings and drive validation/simulation/emulation capability around those standard cells.
• Facilitate and oversee project tapeouts.
• Providing technical leadership, mentoring and customer support for our internal design and 3D modeling teams.

Required Qualifications

• CAD/EDA Engineer I: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field.
• CAD/EDA Engineer II: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field, Minimum of three years industry experience.
• Senior CAD/EDA Engineer: Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field, Minimum of ten years industry experience.
• Experience in developing and customizing high performance semiconductor IC design, layout, & validation flows using industry-standard EDA tools (Cadence, Synopsys, Ansys, Siemens…)
• Excellent UNIX and scripting programming skills (Perl, Python, TCL or similar languages).
• Experience with software build automation and version control software.
• Proficiency in both Linux and Windows environments.
• Prior CAD support experience in semiconductor IC design, including oversight of product tapeouts.
• Strong teamwork, collaboration, and communication abilities, with the ability to contribute to company-wide consensus on design flows, tools, and methodologies.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Relevant education and/or industry experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or advanced degree in semiconductor engineering fields such as Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant disciplines.
• Previous experience in setting up and facilitating Design environments and maintaining design kit operability and coordination for cross functional design, modeling, and/or layout teams.
• Previous experience integrating PDK and/or ADK's to enable 2.5D or 3D SoC's.
• Experience evaluating EDA tool capabilities driving EDA vendors to make tool improvements or enable new functions to meet advanced or unique design requirements.
• Experience in a startup or research and development (R&D) environment.

Salary Range

TIE Pays Industry Competitive Salaries

Working Conditions

• Work is performed on-site in a scientific research environment and prototyping facility with dynamic work conditions collaborating simultaneously with many partners/customers in parallel.
• Work outside standard office hours could be required on an occasional basis during peak periods and special events.

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest