Staff PDK Engineer
Renesas · Posted Nov 6
Semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries
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About the role
The PDK team at Renesas works with internal and external foundries to develop and deploy high-quality PDKs on both mature and advanced nodes, interfacing with foundries, EDA tool vendors, and internal design and layout communities. The PDK is a core part of all design flows from concept to tapeout. This Bangalore-based role involves installing and customizing foundry PDKs, developing and releasing design methodologies, providing CAD and PDK support to circuit design and layout teams, and resolving complex PDK/CAD issues.
What you will do
- Install/customize foundry PDKs and provide support for various product groups.
- Develop, review, update and release foundry PDK and design methodologies for various business units.
- Support circuit design and layout team with PDK related tasks such as design migrations, simulation, physical verification (DRC/LVS/ERC), EMIR, and parasitic extraction (PEX/QRC/StarRC).
- Provide CAD support to designers in troubleshooting project setup, design environment configuration, tool integration, and day-to-day environment issues to ensure a stable and productive design flow.
- Own technically complex PDK/CAD problems from investigation through resolution.
- Ensure PDK is compatible with the latest EDA tools and provide feedback/bug reports to EDA vendors as required.
- Exercise creativity to innovate new processes and procedures to achieve solutions to complex problems quickly.
- Maintain skills to ensure competence to perform assigned responsibilities.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Good knowledge of CMOS fundamentals with background in electrical engineering or semiconductor physics.
- Deep knowledge of PDKs and their internal components: PCell, CDF, Tech files, DRC/LVS/PEX etc.
- Expertise in Cadence custom IC Virtuoso platform, ADE, Virtuoso-L and Virtuoso-XL, schematic capture, and layout concepts.
- Familiarity with EMIR tools such as Voltus/Voltus-Fi, Redhawk etc.
- Expertise in programming languages such as SKILL/SKILL++, Tcl, Python, and shell scripting.
- Understanding of design management systems, licensing & LSF from a user perspective
- Strong support and debugging capability.
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent degree with a minimum of 8 years of experience.
- Digital design flow and criteria for sign-off.
- Familiarity with Cadence Xcelium.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Renesas
Renesas Electronics Corporation is a global semiconductor manufacturer that designs and supplies advanced embedded processors, microcontrollers, analog, power, and connectivity solutions. Serving the automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT sectors, the company delivers integrated technology to support smarter and more sustainable applications worldwide.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 21629 employees
- Founded
- 2002-11-01
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO
Shuhei Shinkai
CFO
Vivek Bhan
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Head of Engineering
Stephen Limoges
Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer
Utae Nakanishi
CHRO
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