Principal Engineer – CAD Design Engineering & EDA Infrastructure
Lattice Semiconductor · Posted Nov 5, 2026
- San Jose, California, United States
- Full-time · Principal
- $250K per year
- 12+ years
Lead the strategy, architecture, development, and operational excellence of CAD and EDA Infrastructure, enabling world-class semiconductor and hardware design teams through scalable design environments, automation, tool optimization, and engineering productivity.
Compensation
Base Pay Range 250,000.00
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the vision, roadmap, and strategy for CAD and EDA infrastructure supporting ASIC, SoC, IP, and verification teams.
- Lead the design, deployment, and maintenance of highly scalable and secure engineering environments.
- Drive infrastructure modernization initiatives including cloud-enabled design workflows, hybrid compute environments, and next-generation engineering platforms.
- Partner with design, verification, implementation, and architecture teams to understand evolving tool and infrastructure requirements.
- Optimize RTL-to-GDSII design flows across synthesis, place-and-route, STA, DFT, verification, emulation, and signoff.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science