Remote accepted: also, offices in Oregon, Dallas, Phoenix, Seattle, Austin, Irvine

 

Job Description

Our client is a global technology leader in Electronic Design Automation, providing software solutions that help engineers around the world design and manufacture new and highly innovative electronic products. Each year, their customers use our tools to push the boundaries of technology and physics in order to deliver smaller, faster, and more reliable products that run the world’s high-tech devices.

 

Position Overview

They are looking for a highly motivated software quality engineer with a degree in Computer Science or Computer/Electrical Engineering to join their product software, development team. Their high-capacity and high-performance tools are key to our customers’ success in building integrated circuits (ICs) for the semiconductor industry.

In this role, you will use your test experience to further improve the quality and delivery of their products, across the full release cycle. My client is looking for an individual who pays good attention to detail, is logical and has an analytical mindset, with strong problem-solving skills.

You will have worked in Layout, DRC, PDK and multi patterning

 

Responsibilities

You will be part of a team responsible for testing, debugging, and qualifying software releases and updates. Quality assurance responsibilities include:

• Involved in the design, development, and execution of functional and regression tests used to measure correctness, robustness, performance, and overall quality.

• Collaborate with senior software engineers, quality assurance specialists, marketing, and customer support professionals to help deliver timely product releases that meet our customer’s needs.

• Provide all partners with appropriate regression reports in a timely manner.

• Encouraged to take advantage of opportunities provided to improve technical and job-related skills; such as developing additional product breadth and business skills!

• Use your leadership and innovation, to develop procedures and tools needed to improve the QA process and assist developers in making design trade-offs and risk analysis assessments.

 

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

• Technical degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent.

• Experience working in a Linux environment

• Knowledge of software quality assurance processes and experience with maintaining regression test suites.

• Self-motivated and able to work independently

• Able to thrive and grow in a dynamic multi-site fast-paced development environment.

 

Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

Useful experience, but not required:

• Knowledge of a scripting language (Python, Perl, Tcl, etc.)

• Exposure to EDA verification tools like Calibre, Virtuoso, DRC

• Experience with C++

• Experience with Calibre SVRF

• Experience with VLSI design or layout tools

 

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