Senior CAD Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build, enhance, and support scalable verification infrastructure, methodologies, and EDA automation flows for ASIC/SoC development.
• Act as the primary support interface for Design & Verification (DV) teams to troubleshoot simulation, regression, coverage, and debug flows.
• Deploy, integrate, and maintain CAD tools, scripts, and environments supporting digital verification.
• Support and maintain regression and CI/CD systems, ensuring stable execution and timely issue resolution.
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure usage, including compute farms and LSF environments.
• Work closely with EDA vendors (Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens) to track, debug, and escalate tool issues.
• Provide methodology guidance, user support, and training to verification engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electronics Engineering.
• 8–12 years of experience in Digital Verification, CAD, or Engineering Support roles.
• Strong understanding of digital verification flows including simulation, regression, coverage, and debug.
• Hands-on experience with SystemVerilog and UVM from a debugging and support perspective.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Tcl, or Perl.
• Extensive experience with EDA tools like VCS, Xcelium, Verdi, or vManager.
• Experience working in Linux-based environments and with compute farm usage.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for working in multi-cultural, global environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with AI/ML-based DV tools (e.g., Cadence Verisium AI).
• Exposure to AI-assisted verification workflows, LLM-based tools, or AI Agent development.
• Experience with cloud-based or distributed regression environments.
• Previous experience as a CAD Application Engineer at an EDA vendor company.

About the Company

NXP Semiconductors enables a smarter, safer, and more sustainable world through innovation. As a world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP pushes boundaries in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets.