CAD Analog Simulation Engineer (TC-50021286)
About The Position
Cirrus Logic is seeking a hands-on, highly driven CAD engineer to own and elevate the analog and mixed-signal simulation environment. This role is crucial for building, refining, and sustaining high-fidelity, production-ready analog simulation flows that support advanced designs. The engineer will collaborate with analog designers, foundry partners, and EDA vendors to ensure the simulation infrastructure is accurate, scalable, resilient, and trusted for tape-out critical decisions. This position is ideal for individuals who enjoy solving complex simulation accuracy problems, analyzing SPICE model behavior, and developing robust methodologies to make simulations more predictive, efficient, and impactful on silicon success.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting design CAD or EDA tools in a production environment.
- Deep, practical expertise in analog SPICE simulation using Cadence Spectre, including SOA checks and the full ADE simulation environment.
- Strong command of analog simulation domains—DC, AC, transient, noise, and statistical analysis—along with proven techniques for convergence tuning and numerical stability.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting simulation flows within the Cadence Virtuoso environment.
- Strong working knowledge of the Cadence OpenAccess (OA) environment, including flow integration and customization.
- Experience working with revision control systems, enabling disciplined development, traceability, and scalable collaboration.
- Solid understanding of CMOS analog processes, combined with direct experience testing, validating, and correlating SPICE models.
- Clear, effective communication skills with the ability to collaborate across design, CAD, foundry, and vendor teams in a team-oriented environment.
- Candidates must be able to access technical data without a requirement for an export license. Export licenses cannot be sponsored or obtained for this role.
Responsibilities
- Own the analog and mixed-signal simulation tools and flows used across design teams, serving as the go-to technical authority.
- Define, build, and evolve simulation signoff methodology and criteria for confident design decisions.
- Ensure simulation flows deliver trusted, repeatable, production-quality results that accurately predict silicon behavior.
- Lead cross-team alignment and consensus on simulation tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Partner directly with foundry teams to validate, qualify, and continuously improve SPICE models.
- Collaborate with EDA vendors to drive tool fixes, enhancements, evaluations, and roadmap influence.
- Work hands-on with design teams to debug simulation accuracy, convergence, and performance challenges.
- Own post-layout simulation flows, including DSPF integration, regressions, and correlation strategies.
- Establish and propagate consistent simulation methodologies and best practices across all analog design teams.
- Architect and create next-generation analog simulation flows and infrastructure from the ground up.
- Analyze waveforms, results, and large datasets to uncover issues, trends, and opportunities to improve methodology and predictability.
- Optimize simulation performance at scale, improving runtime, throughput, and license utilization across shared compute environments.
Benefits
- Inclusive, competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage.
- FSA & HSA options.
- Family-forming benefits.
- On-site Medical Clinic.
- 13 paid holidays.
- 17 days of PTO.
- Immediate 401(k) eligibility with employer matching.
- Free snacks and refreshments stocked in every office.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
