Circuit Design Support Engineer

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Are you interested in exploring a career on the cutting edge of IC circuit design? You'll leverage your current experience and join our team of scientists and engineers in support of the design of integrated circuits for emerging applications in low temperature environments. You’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside a broad array of scientists and engineers to make these design solutions a reality.
The Microelectronics Designs and Applications (MDA) business area of Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a motivated Integrated Circuit (IC) Design CAD Support Engineer to join our team by supporting the EDA/CAD tools required to design and layout analog and digital circuits. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting a variety of analog and digital design flows including Cadence design tools, Innovus, scripting languages (PERL, Python, TCL, etc), and Linux/unix.

This role is 100% onsite in Linthicum or Annapolis Junction, MD.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Close interaction and collaboration with the analog and digital design engineers
• Provide CAD tool support and methodology training to design team
• Enable and improve design and verification flows
• Support tapeout milestones and IP macro releases
• Champion and implement best practices and task automation
• Writing scripts to support CAD capabilities

Basic qualifications for Principal Integrated Circuit (IC) Design CAD Support Engineer:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical area (BSEE or other Engineering discipline preferred) with 5 years of relevant experience (3 years with a MS, 0 years with a PhD)
• Solid knowledge of the Cadence design tools, particularly the Virtuoso Schematic, Layout, and ADE (Spectre preferred) environment
• Experience generating and developing scripts to provide capabilities within a CAD environment (SKILL, Ocean, Python, PERL, Linux/unix shell, etc.)
• US Citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience interfacing with engineers and managers, in addition to vendor application engineers
• Solid interpersonal and team skills for cross-functional collaboration, high attention to detail, ability to self-check work outputs and ability to lead technical tasks
• Hands-on experience with industry standard tools including (but not limited to):
  • Calibre physical verification tools (DRC, LVS, PERC, etc.)
  • Layout parasitic extraction tools (Cadence Quantus, etc.)
• Experience with revision control software (Keysight (formerly Cliosoft) SOS)
• Experience with Cadence Innovus a plus
• Strong analysis, design and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills