CAD Design Enablement TPM

Ericsson • Austin, TX

10d • Onsite

About The Position

The Silicon CAD Technical Product Manager is part of Ericsson Silicon’s Central Engineering Strategy & Operations team in Austin, Texas. Ericsson Silicon develops ASICs and FPGAs for Ericsson’s telecommunications portfolio. Central Engineering provides the design methodologies, tools, and infrastructure that enable silicon development, while Silicon CAD supports engineering teams through shared methodologies, EDA workflows, and automation across R&D sites in Austin, Sweden, and India.

The role consolidates engineering needs into a prioritized portfolio of initiatives and translates them into executable plans aligned with ASIC project milestones. It combines program leadership and technical alignment: defining scope, securing delivery commitments, resolving dependencies, and coordinating qualification and adoption. The role owns integrated program execution and adoption coordination within the agreed portfolio; technical specialists retain architecture, implementation, validation, and approval responsibilities, while program, infrastructure, security, compliance, and support teams retain their respective accountabilities.

The program portfolio covers design and verification methodologies; implementation and signoff; automation and controlled delivery; and the development environment. The role brings practical depth in at least one area and sufficient breadth to coordinate specialists and dependencies across the wider development environment. Success is measured by qualified capabilities delivered for project needs, sustained adoption, early resolution of dependencies, and measurable improvements such as flow reliability, engineering turnaround time, or reduced duplicated effort.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related technical field.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience.
• Background in ASIC/SoC design, verification, Silicon CAD, physical implementation, or related EDA engineering.
• Demonstrated delivery of cross-functional initiatives from requirements through qualification, release, and adoption.
• End-to-end understanding of RTL-to-signoff flows, practical expertise in at least one relevant domain, and ability to challenge assumptions and manage cross-flow dependencies.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, development automation, reproducible workflows, and controlled releases.
• Ability to translate complex engineering needs into clear priorities, plans, and acceptance criteria; align distributed stakeholders and secure decisions without direct authority.
• Clear, concise communication with engineering teams, technical leaders, and executive stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience coordinating engineering infrastructure, access and security requirements, or trade compliance dependencies.
• Experience with EDA vendors or AI-enabled engineering improvements.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate requirements across IP and SoC teams and agree priorities with CAD leadership and engineering stakeholders, balancing project impact, dependencies, and available capacity.
• Coordinate requirements, handoffs, rules, waivers, and quality gates across design, verification, back-end, DFX, and support teams; drive decisions and escalate priority, resource, and schedule conflicts with options and consequences.
• Maintain an integrated roadmap and delivery plan for each agreed initiative, including scope, milestones, acceptance criteria, and risks; agree accountable engineering owners and resource commitments with responsible managers.
• Coordinate evaluations, representative pilots, and qualification with engineering specialists and EDA vendors; ensure required evidence and designated technical approvals are complete before release and align deployment with ASIC project needs.
• Translate engineering needs into agreed environment and support actions with infrastructure, security, compliance, and support owners; establish support interfaces, release visibility, and escalation paths without owning routine operational support.
• Plan rollout, migration, and recovery with responsible owners; coordinate documentation, knowledge transfer, and team readiness; track adoption, remove barriers, and promote reuse, standardization, and simplification.
• Feed project learning into the roadmap and coordinate technical vendor engagement with Sourcing and designated supplier owners.
• Communicate progress, dependencies, risks, and required decisions through relevant CAD and project governance forums.
• Agree milestones, acceptance criteria, adoption targets, and benefit measures with stakeholders, and assess results against agreed baselines.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Opportunity for annual bonus through a Short-Term Variable Compensation Plan, subject to eligibility and performance rules.
• Choice of three medical plan options and a dental plan option, with company credits toward employee and eligible dependent premiums.
• 401(k) plan with automatic 3% company contribution and matching contributions of up to 4% when the employee contributes at least 5% of eligible pay, subject to plan limits.
• Company credits toward basic life insurance, basic accidental death and dismemberment coverage, and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Option to participate in the Ericsson Stock Purchase Plan.
• At least 15 days of accrued vacation, up to 3 personal days per year, 11 annual holidays, 8 hours of volunteer time, and 80 hours of annual sick time; paid time off is prorated based on start date.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of parental or adoption leave at 100% of pay.
• Financial wellness programs, educational assistance, matching gifts, and recognition programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior