Principal Engineer, CAD - Tempe, AZ, United States
$160,920 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Principal Engineer, CAD will provide CAD software support for Digital, Analog, and Mixed-Signal designs, utilizing Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens, and Keysight 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.
- Support and maintain end-to-end tapeout flows, coordinating and executing tapeout submissions to foundries.
- Support Schematic Capture, Analog and Mixed-signal Simulation, Layout, and Layout Verification software and workflows.
- Develop and maintain CAD utilities, automation scripts, and regression flows to improve design efficiency.
- Perform Functional Evaluation, Performance Benchmarking, and Deployment of New Tools.
What you'll need
- BA/BS Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or 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, Tempus.
- Experience supporting Siemens Analog Fast-Spice, Questa, Parasitic CALIBRE PVS, XRC.
- Experience supporting Synopsys Design Compiler, VCS, SpyGlass.
- Programming languages: DFII SKILL, PERL, MATLAB, Tcl/Tk, C/C++, Python.
- Proficient at Linux OS, utilities, and scripting.
This role has been open 42 days — well below the 82-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
687
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Median days open
82 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 | SiTime | All employers we track in this specialty (687 roles · 74 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 687 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 6 | 1463 · 108 employers |
| Median days open | 42 d | 82 d (−40 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 157 open roles · median 169 d
- Synopsys · 65 open roles · median 37 d
- Micron Technology · 42 open roles · median 94 d
- Qualcomm · 41 open roles · median 65 d
- NVIDIA · 40 open roles · median 78 d
- GlobalFoundries · 30 open roles · median 48 d
How we counted: 687 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 74 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.