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Silicon Physical Design CAD Engineer

Microsoft· Silicon Engineering
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BangaloreFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Microsoft SCHIE seeks a Silicon Physical Design CAD Engineer to develop, qualify, automate, and support production CAD flows used for silicon physical design within the MILE organization, focusing on end-to-end silicon design methodologies and EDA/CAD ecosystems for Microsoft’s custom silicon portfolio.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and support physical design CAD flows and methodologies.
  • Work with industry-standard EDA tools from Synopsys and Cadence for synthesis, PNR, timing, implementation, and related physical design activities.
  • Perform tool and flow qualification, including validation of new EDA tool releases, patches, configurations, and methodology changes before production deployment.
  • Develop and maintain regression frameworks to evaluate flow stability, functionality, runtime, resource utilisation, and Quality of Results (QoR).
  • Analyse results and identify timing, power, area, runtime, memory, or other unexpected changes.
  • Debug complex issues involving EDA tools, scripts, physical design flows, and compute environments.
  • Automate repetitive CAD activities and develop scalable utilities using Python, Tcl, Zsh, or similar scripting languages.
  • Use Git-based version control and code-review practices to manage CAD flow development and releases.
  • Collaborate with physical design engineers, methodology teams, CAD engineers, and EDA vendors to resolve issues and improve design productivity.
  • Maintain high-quality documentation for flow releases, regression results, known issues, and methodology changes.
  • Continuously improve flow reliability, scalability, automation, and turnaround time.
  • Using AI to automate daily tasks and implementing AI based workflows

Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 3 years of hands-on experience in Silicon Physical Design and/or developing & support Silicon Physical Design CAD Tools, Flows & Methodologies.
  • Proficiency using Tcl, Python, and similar scripting languages.

Skills

Required:Scripting (Python, Tcl, Zsh)EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence)

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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