Principal Engineer – CAD Design Engineering & EDA Infrastructure

Lattice Overview There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry.

Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.

We are seeking an experienced and highly technical Principal Engineer to lead the strategy, architecture, development, and operational excellence of our CAD and EDA Infrastructure. This role is responsible for enabling world-class semiconductor and hardware design teams through scalable design environments, automation, tool optimization, cloud adoption, and engineering productivity initiatives. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in semiconductor design flows, EDA tools, infrastructure engineering, and large‑scale automation with strong leadership and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

• CAD & EDA Infrastructure Leadership Define and execute the vision, roadmap, and strategy for CAD and EDA infrastructure supporting ASIC, SoC, IP, and verification teams. Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable and secure engineering environments. Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives including cloud‑enabled design workflows, hybrid compute environments, and next‑generation engineering platforms. Partner with design, verification, implementation, and architecture teams to understand evolving tool and infrastructure requirements.
• EDA Tools & Design Flow Development Optimize RTL‑to‑GDSII design flows across synthesis, place‑and‑route, STA, DFT, verification, emulation, and signoff. Evaluate, deploy, and support industry‑standard EDA tools from Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens/Mentor, and other vendors. Standardize methodologies and best practices across global engineering teams. Improve tool reliability, performance, and user productivity through automation and workflow optimization.
• Automation & Engineering Productivity Drive automation using Python, Tcl, Perl, Shell scripting, and modern software engineering practices. Build self‑service platforms and dashboards for monitoring tool usage, licenses, compute resources, and design flow metrics. Reduce design cycle times through process optimization and infrastructure innovation. Implement CI/CD and Dev Ops practices for CAD environments and engineering workflows.
• Infrastructure & Compute Management Architect and manage large‑scale Linux‑based compute farms and distributed job scheduling systems. Optimize storage, networking, HPC clusters, and cloud resources to support demanding EDA workloads. Manage EDA license infrastructure, capacity planning, and utilization optimization. Ensure high availability, reliability, security, and compliance of engineering environments.
• Technical Leadership Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to design leadership and engineering teams. Mentor engineers and contribute to the growth of CAD and infrastructure talent. Influence technology decisions and provide guidance…