EDA / CAD Engineer - Austin, TX, United States
$150,000 - $260,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 4 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As an EDA / CAD Engineer, you will build a robust design environment and support multiple disciplines of IC designers. Mythic takes EDA methodology and tooling seriously and is poised for rapid growth.
What you'll do
- Support IC design and IT leadership with tool and infrastructure upgrades
- Manage repositories of PDKs, IPs, and multiple tools from multiple vendors
- Advise design IT leadership with methodology enhancements and future planning
- Keep up with advancements in industry tools relevant to our goals
- Develop custom tools/scripts/plug-ins that are easily adopted by users
What you'll need
- Deep understanding of the Cadence tool flow, including Virtuoso, AMS, Spectre, PVS/Pegasus, Calibre, Genus, and Innovus / DDI
- Revision control experience and methodology recommendations (perforce/versIC)
- Internal and external IP management
- Supporting multiple PDKs simultaneously
- Scripting & automation: Python, Perl, Tcl, Bash/Shell, SKILL; automating EDA flows, tool setup, regression runs, log parsing, environment configuration, and design-data processing
- License management: FlexNet/FlexLM administration and troubleshooting, including license-server configuration, lmstat/lmutil diagnostics, feature availability, checkout failures, queueing, utilization monitoring, and vendor-daemon issues
- EDA infrastructure support: Linux/Unix environment troubleshooting, LSF/Slurm/Grid Engine compute-farm integration, environment modules, tool-version management, and debugging interactions between EDA applications, compute infrastructure, and license servers
- CAD flow development: Development and support of scripted flows integrating tools such as Cadence Virtuoso, Spectre, Xcelium, Synopsys, or Siemens EDA with internal automation, regression, and verification infrastructure
- Demonstrated history of solving problems for EDA users
Nice to have
- Remote computing support experience (ETX)
- Experience supporting engineering across multiple international locations
- Some degree of sysadmin ability
- Build systems: Make/GNU Make, CMake, custom Makefile-based flows; maintaining build dependencies, environment setup, and reproducible EDA/CAD workflows
- CI/CD & regression infrastructure: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions; developing and supporting automated regression, validation, build, and deployment pipelines for EDA tools and design flows
- Familiarity with TSMC and GF
This role has been open 41 days — well below the 78-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
688
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Median days open
78 d
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Median salary
$195k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Mythic | All employers we track in this specialty (688 roles · 74 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 688 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 2 | 1467 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 41 d | 78 d (−37 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 153 open roles · median 168 d
- Synopsys · 65 open roles · median 38 d
- Micron Technology · 44 open roles · median 80 d
- Qualcomm · 41 open roles · median 66 d
- NVIDIA · 39 open roles · median 79 d
- GlobalFoundries · 33 open roles · median 35 d
How we counted: 688 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Physical Implementation family row. Figures refresh nightly.