Join Our Team at Kandou
Kandou is a team of passionate and accomplished professionals making a significant impact in the semiconductor industry. As an innovative leader in high-speed and energy-efficient chip-to-chip link solutions, we are committed to advancing the electronics industry. Our continuous development ensures we meet the demands not only of our customers today but also of those in the future. If you thrive in a high-tech scale-up environment and are motivated by pushing your limits while challenging the status quo, we have an exciting opportunity for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute as part of a responsive team to define and implement IC design tools, flows, and methodologies.
- Lead and support tool evaluation, selection, consensus-building, deployment, and flow development.
- Deliver training to engineering design teams.
- Collaborate with EDA/CAD vendors to resolve tool issues and help design teams reach timely, practical solutions.
- Contribute to company-wide alignment on design tools, flows, and methodologies.
Required Skills
- Excellent programming skills: Shell, Python, Perl, Tcl, SKILL; GUI development; Make.
- Deep understanding of the chip design process and digital, analog, and mixed-signal IC design flows.
- Proficiency in building robust EDA/CAD flows while balancing stakeholder needs.
- (Preferred) Some RTL coding; basic knowledge of SystemVerilog and VHDL.
- Ability to quickly learn, maintain, and enhance complex software design tools.
- Strong collaboration skills across EDA/CAD and engineering teams.
- Skilled at debugging issues, documenting solutions/flows, and creating clear user guides.
Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
- 7+ years of experience across front-end and back-end digital design flows (e.g., netlist generation, simulation, synthesis, place & route, parasitic extraction, STA, EM/IR analysis, physical verification, DFT, ATPG).
- Experience with Cadence Voltus (or similar) and on-die power integrity (IR-drop, electromigration).
- Hands-on experience with industry-standard EDA tools, methodologies, licensing, and release processes.
- Proven track record in developing code to create/improve automation tools for design engineers.
- Working knowledge of software development methods, system architecture, and operating systems.
- Strong data management experience (e.g., Git, Cliosoft) for multi-project/multi-discipline flows and database tagging.
- Experience implementing and following processes required for quality certification.
If this sounds like the role you have been searching for and you want to join a growing company with an exciting future, we encourage you to apply online using the form below. Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.
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