StaffSystemSoftwareEngineer,RTL-to-GDSFlowPlatform

The VLSI Productivity and Infrastructure team supports 1000+ chip design engineers with strong automation and workflows necessary to create world-changing silicon. We are building the next generation of production semiconductor design-flow infrastructure: a control-plane-driven RTL-to-GDS platform that turns design intent, configuration, generated collateral, EDA tool execution, distributed jobs, validation checks, and shared project state into observable, repeatable implementation workflows. This role is for a senior flow/platform engineer who can work across synthesis, physical design, timing, signoff, ECO, and hierarchical execution. If you can envision and evolve legacy Tcl/Make/Perl/YAML infrastructure into a cleaner, more structured system while keeping active projects running, this role is for you! **What You 'll Be Doing:** * Build and modernize production RTL-to-GDS flow infrastructure across synthesis, place-and-route, timing, signoff, ECO, and handoff workflows * Extend YAML/configuration systems to model workflow intent, stage contracts, validation markers, generated artifacts, override order, and backward-compatible project behavior * Improve Make, Perl, Tcl, Python, and related launch infrastructure for generated runsets, EDA tool setup, distributed execution, status tracking, and failure diagnosis * Build faster prelaunch and in-run checks for missing inputs, stale generated files, invalid hooks, broken environment setup, bad constraints, and inconsistent design state * Develop job-control and observability capabilities for hierarchical and internally launched workflows, including parent-child job attachment, logs, provenance, and structured status * Partner with design and CAD users to debug failures across EDA tools, Linux environments, shared filesystems, schedulers, generated collateral, and configuration layers **What We Need To See:** * B.S. or M.S. in CS, EE, CE, or equivalent experience * 12+ years building, modernizing, or operating productio