CAD Engineer

About the role

Broadcom Central Engineering is looking for a CAD Engineer to provide best-in-class development and support for CAD tool flows focused on advanced process nodes. The role is hands-on, with daily support of design and layout issues.

Key responsibilities

• Provide hands-on, daily support for design and layout issues.
• Interact with EDA vendors, PDK development and process technology teams to deliver timely solutions.
• Develop, maintain and support utilities that improve productivity.
• Create documentation and give hands-on training to design engineers as needed.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, plus 2+ years of experience.
• Solid background in programming, layout and physical verification challenges.
• User-level familiarity with related CAD tools (e.g. Calibre, Virtuoso Layout).
• Experience across all phases of CAD tools: evaluation, QA, testing, release, user support and documentation.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, with strong multitasking and attention to detail.

Required skills

• Programming language to customise layout environments and build productivity utilities.
• Creation and maintenance of CAD PDK environments (tool installations, layout environment customisation).
• EDA tools and flows for advanced chip design.
• Physical verification flows (DRC, LVS).
• Circuit simulation tools.
• QA flows, QA test cases and QA infrastructure.
• AI tools for code generation.