Challenges are our drive, innovation our calling. We at Kandou are a team of passionate accomplished professionals making a mark in the semiconductor industry. We're an innovative leader in high-speed and energy-efficient chip-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics industry, continuously developing to meet the demands of today's customers and tomorrow too. If you love to be part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.

We are actively seeking a Digital EDA/CAD Engineer based in either Switzerland (Lausanne), the UK (Reading) office.


In this role, you will be co-responsible for but not limited to developing project environments, methodologies, and mixed-signal design flows for IC and System design engineers.

Required Competencies – Skills

• Excellent programming skills in languages such as Shell, Python, Perl, TCL, SKILL, develop GUIs, etc.
• High understanding of the chip design process, knowledge of digital, analog, and mixed-signal IC design flows
• Proficient in EDA/CAD flow development while considering all shareholder's concerns
• Preferably some RTL coding experience. Basic understanding and knowledge of System-Verilog, VHDL.
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, maintain, and improve new complex software design tools
• Collaborate effectively throughout EDA and support the engineering teams
• Ability to debug issues, document solutions, and flows, and, create user guidelines

Responsibility and Authority

• Act as part of a highly-responsive team within the organization for defining and implementing IC design development tool flow & methodologies
• Support tool evaluation, tool selection, drive consensus, deployment, support, and flow development
• Assist with training delivery to the engineering design teams
• Address tool issues with EDA/CAD vendors, actively helping the engineering design team to timely find reasonable solutions
• Contribute to a company-wide consensus on design tools, flows, and methodologies

Required Competencies - Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in front-end and back-end flows for digital circuit design (like netlist generation, simulation, synthesis, P&R, parasitic extraction, STA and EM/IR analysis, physical validation, Df T, ATPG, etc)
• Experience with deployment and support of low-power design methodologies (UPF, CPF)
• Experience with Cadence Voltus or similar tool and, On-Die Power Integrity (IR drop, Electro Migration analysis, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with industry-standard tools, methodologies, licensing, and release process
• Working experience in code development to create/improve automation tools to be used by the design engineers
• Hands-on knowledge of software development methods, system architecture, OS implementation
• In-depth Data Management tool experience (GIT, SVN, Cliosoft), supporting consistent and flexible multi-project / multi-discipline flow setup, database tagging
• Used to implement and follow processes required for quality certification

If this is the role you have been looking for and you want to be part of a growing Company, with an exciting future then we would really love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!


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