(Senior) Staff PDK Development Engineer

(Senior) Staff PDK Development Engineer

ams OSRAM

Premstätten, Austria

Your tasks

• Develop, qualify, release and maintain Process Design Kits (PDKs) for Cadence and Synopsys for analog and mixed-signal semiconductor technologies
• Take an active role in advancing PDK development methodologies, qualification strategies and design enablement solutions, with opportunities to grow into broader technical leadership responsibilities
• Collaborate closely with our foundry-organisation, EDA vendors and technology development teams to enable new processes, design capabilities and tool flows
• Drive development of automation, validation and regression frameworks using Python, Tcl and Linux-based engineering environments
• Define qualification and release strategies ensuring consistency across schematic design, simulation, physical verification and extraction
• Create technical documentation, conduct training and support critical engineering projects and technology migrations across the organization
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for global engineering teams and contribute to the definition of long-term design enablement methodologies

Who we are looking for

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Physics or related discipline
• Extensive experience (>6 years) in PDK development, CAD engineering or design enablement
• Deep understanding of semiconductor processes, device behavior and custom IC design flows
• Experience working with foundries, technology development teams and EDA Vendors
• Strong programming and automation skills in Python, Tcl and Linux/Unix environments e.g. for iPDK PyCells and/or Skill based PCells
• Experience applying AI, ML or LLM technologies to engineering automation and productivity improvements is considered an advantage
• Proven ability to drive technical initiatives, mentor engineers and communicate fluently in English with global teams and stakeholders; German language skills are an advantage