PDK Enablement Engineering Specialist

PDK Enablement Engineering Specialist

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

As a PDK enablement engineering specialist, you will provide and support the tools and foundry files to enable the circuit implementation teams who build circuits used in cars, cell phones, data centers, etc. using the latest fabrication technologies: finfet, gate all-around, and using the latest Cadence software tools, including AI.

Cadence Design Systems is seeking PDK enablement engineering specialists to enable foundry PDKs and support the growing analog design and custom layout team building IP using the Cadence design tools (Virtuoso, Pegasus, Quantus, etc.) to build high speed interfaces used in chips found in cars, cell phones, data centers, etc.

You will get the opportunity to collaborate with circuit implementation experts to contribute to the development of exciting chips, work with the best-in-class EDA tools and interact with the Cadence engineering team using developing those tools to improve those tools.

The PDKs installed cover the latest technologies offered from all leading edge foundries in gate all-around and finfet nodes, as well as 2D and 2.5D packaging as well as 3D IC stacking.

The PDK enablement team is a part of the Cadence Design IP development group responsible for downloading, formatting, installing, QA and testing, releasing, and maintaining foundry data.

We analyze initial PDKs and following versions to understand the impact of the design PDK, models, DRC, LVS and extraction rules and decks, reliability requirements on design and share this knowledge with the design teams.

Examples of foundry data include physical verification decks, device models, extraction tech files, and Virtuoso PDKs. Those are the fundamental building blocks on which all the design teams rely to build their circuits.

We also create and use existing automation and regression routines to ease the installation and ensure the operation of collateral with various tool versions. The quality, accuracy and reliability of the PDK is critical to the efficiency and quality of the circuit design.

We customize the foundry collateral to improve the design team efficiency and the design quality.

The team interacts with the foundries about the PDK and foundry data, discussing novelties, issues, bugs, etc.

The team also interacts with Cadence R&D teams on tool development, based on PDK learnings.

• BSEE, MSEE
• Previous experience in PDK enablement
• Knowledge of analog design and layout tools and flows
• Exposure to Cadence Virtuoso Layout and physical verification tools is a plus
• Team player, driven, self-motivated, innovative and autonomous
• Attention to details
• Excellent communication, presentation and customer service skills

En tant que spécialiste en spécialiste des PDK, vous déploierez, développerez et founirez du support des PDKs des fonderies nécessaires aux équipes qui conçoivent les circuits intégrés et leurs layouts utilisés dans les voitures, les téléphones portables, les centres de données, etc., en utilisant les dernières technologies de fabrication :
FinFET, Gate All-Around, et les outils logiciels Cadence les plus récents, y compris l'IA.

Cadence Design Systems recherche des ingénieurs spécialisés dans les PDK pour bâtir et supporter les fichiers et outils nécessaires à la conception de circuits intégrés dans les fonderies les plus avancées. Ces fichiers seront utilisés par les équipes de conception et de layout analogique. Cette équipe développe des circuits (IP) à l'aide des logiciels Cadence (Virtuoso, Pegasus, Quantus, etc.) afin de créer des interfaces à haut débit utilisées dans les puces présentes dans les automobiles, les téléphones portables, les centres de données, etc.

Vous aurez l'opportunité de col laborer avec des experts en conception et layout de circuits pour contribuer au développement de puces innovantes, de travailler avec des logiciels de pointe et d'interagir avec l'équipe de conception des logiciels de Cadence…