Principal CAD Engineer - Bengaluru, India
About the role
This role involves leading the development, deployment, and support of advanced VLSI CAD methodologies and automation solutions. The focus is on improving design productivity, quality, and scalability across RTL-to-GDS implementation flows for complex SOCs.
What you'll do
- Architect, develop, and maintain scalable CAD flows for synthesis, physical design, STA, low-power verification, and signoff.
- Drive automation and methodology improvements to enhance design efficiency, runtime, and QoR.
- Collaborate with design, verification, DFT, and implementation teams to understand flow requirements.
- Debug complex flow, tool, and infrastructure-related issues across project execution.
- Integrate and qualify new EDA tool releases and advanced node methodologies.
- Develop automation scripts, regression environments, dashboards, and flow monitoring infrastructure.
- Work with foundries and EDA vendors on technology enablement and issue resolution.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics, Computer Engineering, or VLSI.
- 12+ years of experience in CAD engineering, physical design methodology, or EDA flow development.
- Expertise in ASIC/SOC implementation flows including synthesis, P&R, STA, physical verification, and low-power methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with industry-standard EDA tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA tool suites.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in Tcl, Python, Perl, and Shell scripting.
- Experience with distributed computing environments, regression frameworks, and infrastructure management.
- Strong debugging, analytical, and stakeholder management skills.
This role has been open 2 days — well below the 85-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
671
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Median days open
85 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 | TYLsemi | All employers we track in this specialty (671 roles · 74 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 671 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 13 | 1371 · 106 employers |
| Median days open | 4 d | 85 d (−81 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 168 open roles · median 147 d
- Synopsys · 55 open roles · median 58 d
- NVIDIA · 47 open roles · median 71 d
- Micron Technology · 36 open roles · median 117 d
- Qualcomm · 34 open roles · median 71 d
- Intel Corporation · 29 open roles · median 24 d
How we counted: 671 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Sept 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.