Principal Engineer, CAD - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$164,800 USD yearly
Originally posted 28 April 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Principal Engineer, CAD provides CAD software support for Digital, Analog, and Mixed-Signal designs using Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, Keysight, and third-party vendor tools.
What you'll do
- Provide full lifecycle support for custom CAD flows, including tool development, installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades across Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, and Keysight platforms. - Own PDK installation, validation, customization, maintenance, and release management while ensuring alignment with foundries. - Support and maintain end-to-end tapeout flows, coordinating and executing tapeout submissions to foundries. - Support schematic capture, analog and mixed-signal simulation, layout, layout verification workflows, digital simulation, verification environments, and digital place-and-route tools. - Develop and maintain CAD utilities, automation scripts, and regression flows to improve design efficiency. - Interface directly with EDA vendors' application and support teams to resolve issues and test new software releases prior to deployment across multiple engineering sites.
What you'll need
- BA/BS Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. - Minimum 7 years of experience with analog and digital new product development CMOS IC CAD support using EDA tools. - Experience supporting Cadence Virtuoso Schematic Editor and Layout Suite, Spectre, Spectre-RF, Multi-Mode Simulator, Physical Layout tools, Assura, PVS, Pegasus, Innovus, and Tempus. - Experience supporting Siemens Analog Fast-Spice, Questa, Parasitic CALIBRE PVS, and XRC. - Experience supporting Synopsys Design Compiler, VCS, SpyGlass, and related tools. - Proficiency in DFII SKILL, PERL, MATLAB, Tcl/Tk, C / C++, Python, as well as Linux OS, utilities, and scripting.
Skills: CAD flows, EDA Tool Vendors, PDK installation, tapeout flows, automation scripts, Cadence
This role has been open 179 days — well above the 71-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
|
Open roles in category
696
|
Median days open
71 d
|
Median salary
$192k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | SiTime | All employers we track in this specialty (696 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 696 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 7 | 1489 · 109 employers |
| Median days open | 53 d | 71 d (−18 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $192k |
Skills observed across this category: CAD flows, EDA Tool Vendors, PDK installation, tapeout flows, automation scripts, Cadence
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 155 open roles · median 152 d
- Synopsys · 62 open roles · median 43 d
- Micron Technology · 44 open roles · median 52 d
- GlobalFoundries · 39 open roles · median 26 d
- Qualcomm · 39 open roles · median 76 d
- Keysight Technologies · 34 open roles · median 79 d
How we counted: 696 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 25 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.