Sr Application Engineer

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JD for Virtuoso Layout req

Your role will be to meet customers/prospects and identify & qualify the opportunities, work out agreeable, equally importantly achievable, evaluation criteria, run through the evaluation and convert the opportunities into business and help customers to deploy the tool and get it running into production at the earliest. It requires a very good understanding of customer flow and a good analytical ability to resolve issues impacting production schedule. Hands–on knowledge of Advance Node layout and design rules would be a plus.

The role demands a close interaction with R&D and Product Engineering team for implementation of new features and bug fixes.

As the job requires an extensive interaction with customers for issue resolution and identifying opportunities to proliferate Cadence technologies, at the same time a closer interaction with R&D and other stakeholders, it demands an excellent customer and communication skills, and the leadership qualities.

This position requires solid understanding of IC design technology and foundry process/methodology in analog layouts. It is essential to have a very good understanding of analog layout design fundamentals, advance node virtuoso techfile constraints and in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on writing skill scripts to perform various layout automation tasks. The candidate should have knowledge of complete analog back-end flow from top level floorplanning down to complex block level layouts, physical verification, extraction, EMIR analysis etc, with proficiency in Cadence layout tools specifically Virtuoso with advance node exposure. Prior Design experience using Cadence CustomIC Physical Design tools (Virtuoso) and flows including chip integration and signoff is an added advantage.

• B.Tech or equivalent with 3 to 5 years of relevant experience.