Principal EDA / ASIC CAD Engineer

About Racyics

Racyics is looking for an experienced Principal EDA / ASIC CAD Engineer to build and scale our EDA and CAD design environment.

Racyics provides a comprehensive project and design flow management environment for its employees and external customers. This role offers the opportunity to improve and scale the existing environment and to establish robust, automated, and scalable design flows supporting analog, digital, and mixed-signal IC development, with a direct impact on productivity, quality, and time-to-market.

You will work hands-on with a wide range of state-of-the art EDA tools side-by-side with experienced engineers scripts, and flows, while acting as the technical expert of design automation at Racyics.

Job Description:

• Improve, develop and maintain EDA and CAD tools, scripts, and design flows for ASIC and IP development
• Build end-to-end design flows covering all major Semi- and Full-Custom Design steps
• Implement automation frameworks using Python, Perl, Cadence SKILL, Tcl, and Linux shell scripting
• Enable and maintain PDKs
• Support designers with tool and flow usage, debugging, and PPA optimization
• Introduce flow standardization, documentation, and best practices as the organization grows

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience in various commercial EDA tools from Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens EDA
• Strong programming skills in Python, SKILL, Shell, Tcl, and Perl)
• Solid Linux/Unix shell scripting experience
• Strong understanding of digital ASIC design flows (synthesis, STA, Place-and-Route and Physical Signoff)
• Hands-on experience with EDA tools (e.g. Cadence Virtuoso)
• Experience with LVS, DRC, PEX, and sign-off methodologies
• Version control experience (Git, SVN)
• Knowledge of LSF/SLURM, License Monitoring and LDAP is a plus
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently

About us:

Racyics® is Europe’s leading design service provider for mixed-signal system-on-chip design and turnkey services in advanced nodes.

We deliver professional analog, digital and mixed-signal design services tailored to the customers’ needs with focus on realization of complex System-on-Chips in leading edge technology nodes. Our team of more than 150 employees covers the complete chip design process up to system architecture development. Racyics is working for major German and international semi-custom companies both as a service provider and in collaborative partnerships.

Benefits:

• flexible working hours
• mobile work
• a financial contribution to your childcare costs
• great team events