Lead Application Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with customers and prospects to identify opportunities, define evaluation criteria, and successfully run tool evaluations leading to business conversions.
• Support deployment of layout tools in customer production environments, ensuring smooth ramp-up and issue resolution.
• Analyze customer design flows, resolve technical issues affecting project timelines, and propose layout automation solutions.
• Leverage strong understanding of analog layout fundamentals, Virtuoso techfile constraints, and design rule compliance to guide customers effectively.
• Perform end-to-end backend analog layout support including top-level floorplanning, complex block-level layouts, physical verification, extraction, and EMIR analysis.
• Write and maintain skill-based layout automation scripts to optimize customer productivity and ensure design scalability.
• Collaborate closely with R&D and Product Engineering teams for feature enhancement requests, bug reporting, and customer-specific customization.
• Provide technical presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on sessions to educate customers on layout methodologies and tool capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent (B.Tech preferred)
• 37 years of hands-on experience in analog layout design and automation

Preferred Technical Expertise:

• Strong hands-on expertise in Cadence Virtuoso layout tools
• In-depth knowledge of advanced node design rules and techfile constraints
• Experience with layout automation using Skill scripting language
• Familiarity with physical verification flows (DRC/LVS) and post-layout simulation tools
• Working knowledge of EMIR analysis and related physical design constraints
• Prior exposure to Cadence CustomIC flow, chip-level integration, and signoff methodologies

Behavioral and Interpersonal Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with customers and internal stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a customer-first mindset
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet customer schedules
• Comfortable in a high-ownership role that demands collaboration across geographies and teams
• Proven ability to build and maintain long-term relationships with technical decision-makers