Principle Engineer - CAD (Physical Verification) - AZ - Chandler, United States
Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.
Join the CAD Engineering team supporting semiconductor design automation, EDA/CAD flows, and engineering software.
About the role
This role supports semiconductor design automation, EDA/CAD flows, engineering software, verification, infrastructure, technical support, documentation, and lifecycle activities within the CAD Engineering team.
What you'll do
- Define and evolve advanced CAD/EDA architectures, methodologies, flows, tools, scripts, automation, and engineering-software solutions.
- Translate complex semiconductor-design, verification, infrastructure, product, user, and business needs into scalable technical direction.
- Guide semiconductor, analog, digital, RF, PCB, ASIC, FPGA, SoC, verification, and design-automation approaches.
- Integrate performance, capacity, reliability, security, quality, risk, lifecycle, and technical-tradeoff analyses into decisions.
- Direct critical technical investigations, validation strategies, release-readiness reviews, and corrective actions.
- Drive reusable methodology, automation, observability, standardization, supportability, and engineering-productivity improvements.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 10 or more years of relevant experience in semiconductor CAD/EDA, design automation, engineering software, software development, scripting, design flows, verification, compute infrastructure, or technical support.
- Advanced analytical and strategic thinking, architecture and methodology development, structured problem solving, technical influence, decision-ready communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to guide complex CAD, EDA, software, infrastructure, verification, and semiconductor-design decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience with semiconductor CAD/EDA, design automation, engineering software, design-flow development, physical verification, compute or grid infrastructure, or technical support.
- Experience with scripting, software development, validation, regression, debugging, automation, or engineering-productivity improvement.
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Skills: CAD/EDA flows, design automation, physical verification, scripting, engineering-software solutions
This role has been open 8 days — well below the 79-day median for EDA/CAD Engineering roles.
EDA/CAD Engineering · EDA Tools
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Open roles in category
704
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Median days open
79 d
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Median salary
$195k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Microchip Technology | All employers we track in this specialty (704 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 12 | 704 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 28 | 1485 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 37 d | 79 d (−42 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
Skills observed across this category: CAD/EDA flows, design automation, physical verification, scripting, engineering-software solutions
Who's hiring in this category
- Cadence Design Systems · 163 open roles · median 162 d
- Synopsys · 59 open roles · median 36 d
- Micron Technology · 44 open roles · median 107 d
- Qualcomm · 42 open roles · median 60 d
- NVIDIA · 41 open roles · median 73 d
- GlobalFoundries · 30 open roles · median 51 d
How we counted: 704 open EDA/CAD Engineering (EDA Tools) roles from 75 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.