CAD Engineer

Impinj delivers the Physical Intelligence that connects the physical world to the AI-powered digital world, fueling automated workflows and improving consumer experiences. From retail merchandise and groceries to packages and shipping pallets, Impinj products and solutions identify and track tens of billions of everyday items, providing real-time operational insights about every item enterprises make, move and sell. We are, quite literally, the eyes and ears of smart enterprise systems. Come help us build technology and solutions that enable businesses to visualize everything, waste nothing and act instantly.

Team Overview:

The CAD Silicon Support Engineering team is the backbone of our silicon development engine. We are a high-impact, multi-disciplinary group of engineers dedicated to building, maintaining, and optimizing the critical Electronic Design Automation (EDA) environments, toolchains, and methodologies that enable our design teams to tape out world-class silicon.

Our mission, to accelerate time-to-market and maximize engineering productivity by delivering robust, highly automated, and deterministic CAD workflows. We bridge the gap between EDA vendor tools and the unique, complex demands of our custom silicon architectures, ensuring maximum tool uptime, optimal license utilization, and flawless data management.

What you will do:

• Develop process development kit elements (PDK), including DRC, LVS and Extraction rule decks, model files, custom parameterized cells, and timing files.

• Setup and configure EDA tools for design teams

• Specify workstation and server systems, develop Linux OS installation and maintenance scripts, administer and support user accounts

• Support team members on the Linux Operating System

• Support circuit and layout designers using DRC, LVS and Extraction tools

• Support analog and digital design flows and tools from project setup through tape out

• Work with static timing tools and library characterization tools

• Work alongside designers to help debug and sometimes automate design tasks, and be a liaison between designers and tool vendors

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree with 15 years of experience or MS with 10 years of experience in Electrical Engineering or related field
• 10+ years in a design and/or design automation field
• Experience with Physical Verification Tools (DRC/LVS/Extraction tools)
• Proficiency in one or more programming and Scripting Languages (Cadence Skill, Perl, Python, Unix shell, C, C++, Web development)