Product Engineer, Calibre Design Enhancer

Siemens EDA is seeking a highly motivated Product Engineer to join the Calibre Product Engineering team, with a focus on Calibre Design Enhancer.

Calibre Design Enhancer brings Calibre technology earlier into the IC design and physical implementation flow, enabling automated, correct-by-construction layout optimization and helping customers improve design quality, power integrity, and time to physical verification closure.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of customers, Application Engineering, Product Management, and R&D. You will engage directly with leading semiconductor companies to understand complex design challenges, translate those challenges into product requirements and new use models, and work closely with engineering teams to develop, validate, and deploy solutions including AI enabled and agentic flows.

This is a highly technical and customer-facing role for someone who wants to remain deeply involved in semiconductor design technology while also helping shape product direction and strategy.

• Serve as a technical expert for Calibre Design Enhancer and related Calibre physical design and verification solutions.

• Work directly with semiconductor customers and field Application Engineers to understand physical-design challenges, workflows, and emerging requirements.

• Translate customer problems and market needs into clearly defined product requirements, use cases, specifications, and success criteria.

• Work closely with Calibre R&D throughout the product development lifecycle, from concept and prototype through validation, deployment, and production release.

• Evaluate new product capabilities on representative and customer designs and provide detailed technical feedback to R&D.

• Investigate complex customer and design-flow problems, perform root-cause analysis, and develop practical solutions or new methodologies.

• Develop expertise in Design Enhancer use models including layout optimization, via enhancement, power-grid enhancement, and physical-verification readiness.

• Work with physical design and signoff flows involving place and route, DRC, power integrity, EM/IR analysis, and related design technologies.

• Identify emerging semiconductor design trends, customer challenges, competitive solutions, and opportunities for new Design Enhancer capabilities and use models.

• Support customer evaluations, benchmarks, early-adopter programs, and deployment of new product capabilities.

• Partner with Application Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, and other Siemens EDA product teams to drive successful customer adoption.

• Communicate product capabilities and technical concepts through customer presentations, demonstrations, training, application notes, white papers, and other technical material.

• Represent customer and field requirements within the product organization and help prioritize development based on technical and business impact.

• Collaborate effectively across geographically distributed engineering, product, and customer teams.

• Travel domestically and internationally as needed for customer engagements and industry activities.

• BS or MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of relevant semiconductor industry experience in physical design, physical verification, EDA product engineering, applications engineering, design methodology, or a related area.

• Strong understanding of the IC physical-design flow, including several of the following:

• Floor planning and place and route

• Routing and design closure

• Physical verification and DRC

• Power distribution networks

• Electromigration and IR-drop considerations

• Physical implementation and signoff flows

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical problems, determine root causes, and develop practical solutions.

• Experience working with EDA tools in production semiconductor design flows.

• Ability to understand customer requirements and translate them into clear technical requirements for software development teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to different audiences.

• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with R&D, field engineering, customers, and other product teams.

• Experience working in Linux environments.

• Scripting or automation experience using Python, Tcl, shell scripting, or similar languages.

• Hands-on experience with Calibre physical verification products, particularly Calibre DRC or related Calibre technologies.

• Experience with Calibre Design Enhancer, Calibre Real Time, or other shift-left physical-design and verification methodologies.

• Hands-on experience with industry-standard place-and-route tools such as Cadence Innovus or Synopsys Fusion Compiler/ICC
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• Experience with advanced-node physical implementation and the associated DRC, routing, power-integrity, and design-closure challenges.

• Knowledge of EM/IR analysis, power-grid design and…