Design Engineering Director
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Posted on:
05-11-2025
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Job Summary
At Cadence we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Design Engineering Director - Custom Layout & CAD
Join our team of layout designers creating challenging IP designs for the consumer industrial and automotive markets. Our designs are fabricated in the worlds leading-edge silicon processes for companies ranging from large multinational companies to hot start-ups. Learn on-the-job how to apply your engineering background to create these robust high-performance analog designs. Working with experienced skilled designers you will be part of the design team using Cadence design tools. We are looking for a Custom Layout & CAD engineering leader who can produce quality layouts of analog/mixed-signal circuit blocks working in collaboration with circuit and custom layout designers. As a manager you will be responsible for leading teams and projects to success overseeingall facets of the back-end implementation flow from initial floor planning through detailed layout and final verification of conformance to foundry design rules as well as the full custom layout CAD flow.
The Cadence Silicon Solution Group custom layout team develops and delivers a variety of high-quality high speed and high accuracy CMOS integrated circuits IP for several foundries and process nodes down to 3nm and even below. We are deeply involved in FinFET layout and even beyond (gate all-around).
As part of Cadence the Cadence Silicon Solution Group custom layout team not only has access to all the current and future Cadence layout and verification tools as a layout manager you will also actively participate in the development validation and implementation of the Cadence SSG Analog Design/Layout Agentic AI and various Cadence Custom Design software which are the most used in the industry.
As a custom layout design manager you will be involved in:
- Implementing high speed and high accuracy cells blocks and IP blocks in a timely fashion with high quality and efficiency
- Working with custom layout designers from SSG Nanjing and other groups of all over the world to build high quality IP and testchips
- Working with circuit designers from SSG Nanjing and other groups all over the world to understand their technical and schedule needs
- Participating and driving proactive contribution to the Cadence SSG Analog Design/Layout Agentic AI development validation and restless optimization to implement and boost the productivity of high quality IP custom layout design
- Collaborating with the Cadence EDA R&D teams to help develop the layout editing and verification tools
- Managing custom layout designers and project teams
At Cadence we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
- Strong experience in microelectronics design and requirements
- Strong understanding and experience of custom layout effects on the circuit such as performance power area and reliability effects etc.
- In-depth knowledge of various analog layout techniques like matching shielding etc.
- Strong experience with Cadence Virtuoso Layout and physical verification tools
- Team player driven highly self-motivated and autonomous
- Excellent communication presentation skills in both English & Mandarin
- Demonstrated experience in leading projects managing & developing teams of different working severity members hiring & training new talents
Were doing work that matters. Help us solve what others cant
Were doing work that matters. Help us solve what others cant.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
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