Application Engineer in Digital Back-end

Work location: Milan, Italy
Position Description

This is an excellent opportunity to work on challenging and complex SoC projects at advanced technology nodes with a major company in the semiconductor domain.

The Application Engineer will provide expert level technical customer support for our products related to the Innovus and Tempus families of products of the Digital Implementation tool suite, with a focus on Place and Route and Static Timing Analysis.

Identify and track technical issues in Customers’ digital IC design environment.

Develop/maintain technical and soft skills in order to be seen as a trusted EDA tool specialist with a deep knowledge in  digital IC tools.

Behave as a "Customer virtual team member"
Work closely with the sales team to identify additional sales opportunities and help develop winning strategies.

Assist the Customer with digital IC design flow development, e.g. improve existing design methodologies, develop new methodologies that leverage tools & services.

Support technical evaluations (including Beta evaluations with R&D and the customer) of new digital EDA tools, flows and methodologies.

Provide direct contribution to key design projects, e.g. be responsible for driving IC tools for key tasks on these projects. 

Position Requirements

Master Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics, or a related discipline.
1 to 4 years of experience in microelectronics/EDA industry

Good communication skills
Fluent in ITALIAN and in English

A working knowledge of UNIX/Linux, C-shell, TCL/TK programming and scripting
Deep understanding of digital IC PnR
Experience in one and preferably more of the following disciplines:
-Digital Circuit Design (synthesis, implementation, DFT, STA)
-CAD support for Digital IC Design and related flows
-Logical, Timing and Physical Verification, STA, equivalence checking