Senior CAD Semiconductor Engineer (EDA Flow & Infrastructure)

Assumptions:

This Job Description document is mainly for a Senior CAD Engineer / Technical Lead. Leadership expectations can be adjusted for more junior roles with increased hands-on focus. 

Mission:

• Define, deploy, and maintain EDA tool flows and CAD infrastructure supporting semiconductor design and verification activities across full SoC lifecycle. 
• Drive the evaluation, benchmarking, and integration of EDA tools (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA, Arteris) and associated flows to maximize productivity, reliability, and scalability. 
• Own the engineering infrastructure environment (compute, storage, licensing, CI/CD, automation) required for advanced chip design workloads. 
• Collaborate with design, verification, and physical implementation teams to ensure efficient, robust, and scalable tool usage. 
• Explore and integrate AI/ML-based tooling and workflows to improve engineering productivity (automation, debugging, optimization, knowledge extraction). 
• Ensure optimal trade-offs between performance, cost, scalability, and usability of the CAD environment. 
• Act as a key technical interface between internal engineering teams, management, and EDA vendors. 
• Provide regular reporting on tool performance, usage, and roadmap alignment. 

Main responsibilities:

Define, deploy, and maintain EDA flows for digital, mixed-signal, and verification activities (simulation, synthesis, P&R, DFT, signoff). 

Evaluate, benchmark, and qualify new EDA tools, releases, and methodologies before production deployment. 

Design and operate EDA infrastructure environments, including: 

• Compute farms (Linux-based clusters for simulation and regression)

• Storage systems (NFS, distributed storage, backup/DR)

• License servers (FlexLM/Flexera).

Develop and maintain automation frameworks for: 

• Tool installation and configuration

• Regression and CI/CD pipelines

• Resource provisioning and monitoring.

Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) for design and verification workflows. 

Collaborate with engineering teams to: 

• Optimize tool usage and flows

• Debug tool-related issues

• Improve turnaround time and efficiency.

Maintain strong interaction with EDA vendors (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens): 

• Tool support, issue resolution, roadmap alignment

• Licensing strategy and capacity planning.

Define and enforce best practices and standards for CAD usage and tool flows. 

Integrate AI-driven capabilities into engineering workflows, including: 

• LLM-assisted scripting and automation

• AI-based log analysis, debug assistance, and workflow optimization

• Hybrid cloud/on-prem AI infrastructure for sensitive data

Support security, compliance, and reliability requirements (e.g., ISO 27001 environments). 

Technical skills:

EDA / CAD Flow Expertise: 

Strong experience with full EDA flows: 

• Simulation, synthesis, place & route, verification, DFT flows

• Tools from Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA (Mentor Graphics)

• Tool validation, qualification, and deployment.

Strong experience with: 

• EDA licensing systems (FlexLM/Flexera)

• Tool versioning, release management, and regression validation.

Good understanding of: 

• RTL design, verification flows, and physical design constraints

• Interaction between tools and silicon quality/productivity

• Knowledge in ISO26262, DO-254 is a plus.

Infrastructure & Automation:

Strong experience in: 

• Linux-based compute farms for EDA workloads

• Distributed storage systems (NFS, parallel/distributed FS)

• CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitLab CI or equivalent).

Scripting and automation: 

• Python, Perl, Shell, TCL

• Infrastructure-as-code and automation mindset.

Experience with: 

• Monitoring and performance optimization

• Backup, disaster recovery, high availability.

AI / Modern Engineering Tooling:

Practical experience with: 

• AI/LLM-based tooling integration (e.g., Copilot, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral)

• Hybrid AI infrastructure (cloud + on-prem GPU environments)

• Use cases such as:

• Workflow automation

• Debug assistance

• Knowledge retrieval (RAG)

• Engineering productivity optimization

Additional skills:

Object-oriented programming concepts 

Familiarity with: 

• Version control systems (Git, SVN, etc.)

• DevOps practices and toolchains.

Requirements:

Educational background: 

Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Microelectronics, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

Required experience:

• 8–15+ years in CAD / EDA / semiconductor infrastructure

• Proven experience in EDA tool deployment and flow ownership

• Strong exposure to semiconductor design environments.

Other required skills:

• Strong ownership and autonomy in managing complex engineering environments 

• Ability to bridge design teams and infrastructure/tooling domains 

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills 

• Clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders 

• Proactive mindset with focus on automation and continuous improvement 

• Ability to challenge existing approaches and drive pragmatic, scalable solutions.

What you will love about working here?

• We care about all our employees and want them to feel as comfortable as possible. That's why we offer them health insurance from the first days, regardless of the probationary period.
• The gift from the company - Christmas holidays from 25 December to 31 December.
• Сooperation with Superhumans center and Veteran HUB. Capgemini Engineering has supported the launch of psychological rehabilitation department of Superhumans. Our team also donnated over UAH 500 000 prosthetics for three Ukrainian defenders. Currently, we support psychological counseling provided by the Veteran Hub, and we have implemented a internal policy making the company friendly to military and veterans with the assistance of the Hub.