Lead CAD & Design Enablement Engineer

Olix
Austin
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Project management","Organizational skills","Continuous improvement","Collaboration"]

Lead day-to-day CAD/EDA and design environment support for digital and analog silicon teams. Maintain and troubleshoot EDA flows across design, verification, implementation, analog, and signoff, while building automation and scripting to improve productivity and design quality. Diagnose tool, licensing, and environment issues to reduce downtime. Evaluate new EDA releases, partner with EDA vendors, and help scale a high-performance computing environment that supports demanding semiconductor workloads.

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Olix
Olix
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Lead CAD & Design Enablement Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead day-to-day CAD/EDA and design environment support for digital and analog silicon teams. Maintain and troubleshoot EDA flows across design, verification, implementation, analog, and signoff, while building automation and scripting to improve productivity and design quality. Diagnose tool, licensing, and environment issues to reduce downtime. Evaluate new EDA releases, partner with EDA vendors, and help scale a high-performance computing environment that supports demanding semiconductor workloads.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Act as the primary point of contact for day-to-day CAD, EDA, and design environment support for digital and analog engineering teams.
  • •Maintain, enhance, and troubleshoot design, verification, implementation, analog, and signoff flows across the silicon development lifecycle.
  • •Develop, deploy, and maintain automation, scripting, and infrastructure solutions to improve productivity and execution efficiency.
  • •Diagnose and resolve EDA tool, licensing, environment, and workflow issues to minimize downtime and accelerate execution.
  • •Partner with engineering and IT teams to build and optimize a reliable, scalable, high-performance computing environment and manage external CAD contractors.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityPensionAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years supporting semiconductor design teams in a CAD/EDA/design methodology or silicon infrastructure role.
  • •Strong understanding of digital and/or analog IC design flows (design entry, simulation, verification, implementation, and signoff).
  • •Hands-on administration/support of EDA tools from vendors such as Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens EDA (Mentor), or Ansys.
  • •Proficiency in scripting/automation using Python, Tcl, Shell, Perl, or similar languages; strong Linux/Unix knowledge and distributed compute environments.
  • •Experience with EDA license management and compute job scheduling/infrastructure for semiconductor development, including troubleshooting cross-tool and environment issues.
Experience:5+ yearsSemiconductorsSilicon designEDA
Skills:CommunicationProject managementOrganizational skillsContinuous improvementCollaboration
Tech Stack:CadenceSynopsysSiemens EDA (Mentor)AnsysPythonTclShellPerlLinuxUnix

Company Brief

Olix
Olix designs and manufactures optical processors (Optical Tensor Processing Units) for training and running inference on large AI models, aiming to deliver higher performance and lower energy consumption than conventional silicon-based accelerators.
Industry: Deep Tech
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2024
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