STA - CAD Engineer - TX, Austin, United States
Physical Design & EDA
Originally posted 6 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Your contributions will impact various products across adaptive embedded computing, server, desktop, and laptop market segments.
What you'll do
- Release high quality flows and provide support to design teams on critical issues.
- Evaluate and qualify capabilities of new EDA tools and collaboratively develop new features.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and customer support.
- Collaborate with CAD and ML teams to develop and optimize machine learning models for EDA workflows.
- Assist in automating design verification, simulation, and performance analysis using ML techniques.
- Contribute to data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation for silicon design datasets.
- Support the integration of ML tools into AMD’s internal CAD infrastructure and workflows.
- Document findings, present results, and propose improvements to enhance design efficiency and accuracy.
What you'll need
- Strong digital circuit fundamentals.
- Proficient in STA methodologies for timing closure.
- Expert user of STA signoff tools, extraction and placement and routing tools.
- Experience with analyzing timing reports and identifying design/constraint issues.
- Familiarity with Verilog and System Verilog for design.
- Familiarity on 3DIC design implementation and analysis.
- EDA tool competence and strong scripting capability.
- Excellent UNIX and programming skills (Perl, Python, and TCL).
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer engineering/Electrical Engineering.
Nice to have
- Ability to provide technical presentations and write clear documentation.
- Experience working on multiple projects in a global team environment.
Market context
This role has been open 3 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, and who else is hiring
| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (704 roles · 75 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 23 | 704 |
| Open roles in the wider Physical Implementation family | 89 | 1488 · 107 employers |
| Median days open | 18 d | 79 d (−61 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $195k |
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.