PDK Engineer

Join the PDK team in Nijmegen and help deliver reliable design environments for advanced semiconductor and packaging technologies.

Our team integrates foundry-provided Process Design Kits into a standardized NXP environment. We work with foundries, EDA vendors, technology experts, packaging teams, and IC designers to ensure that PDKs meet NXP’s quality, reliability, and usability requirements.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, and maintain physical-verification rule decks and runsets for bulk CMOS, FinFET, SOI and FD-SOI, RF CMOS, BiCMOS, BCD, and high-voltage technologies.
• Develop and support DRC, LVS, ERC, reliability-verification, metal-fill, and density-verification flows, including Calibre PERC where applicable
• Develop and maintain layout parasitic extraction technology files and LPE/PEX flows.
• Develop and integrate technology and reliability data for electromigration and voltage-drop analysis, supporting EM/IR verification flows.
• Integrate and qualify foundry-provided rule decks, technology files, extraction data, and device models.
• Automate PDK testing, regression, and validation.
• Investigate technical issues and work with foundries and EDA vendors to resolve them.
• Support design teams during PDK adoption, verification, and tape-out.
• Evaluate new EDA tools, methodologies, and design-flow capabilities.

What You Bring

• At least eight years of relevant experience in physical verification, parasitic extraction, EM/IR verification, or PDK development.
• Hands-on experience developing physical-verification rule decks using at least one of the following platforms:
  • Siemens Calibre using SVRF or TVF
  • Cadence Pegasus, PVS, or Assura
  • Synopsys IC Validator
• Strong knowledge of DRC, LVS, parasitic extraction, and semiconductor sign-off methodologies.
• Experience with relevant EDA tools, such as:
  • Siemens Calibre nmDRC, nmLVS, PERC, or xRC
  • Cadence Pegasus, Quantus, or Voltus
  • Synopsys IC Validator, StarRC, or RedHawk-SC
• Experience working in Linux or UNIX-based EDA environments.
• Proficiency in at least two relevant programming or scripting languages, such as Python, Tcl, shell scripting, Perl, Cadence SKILL, C, or C++.
• Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• A Master of Science (MSc) or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Semiconductor Technology, Applied Physics, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Candidates with a bachelor’s degree and substantial relevant industry experience are also encouraged to apply.
• Experience with PDK regression automation and quality assurance.
• Knowledge of machine learning or generative AI for engineering automation, data analysis, knowledge retrieval, or verification debugging.

Your Impact

You will help provide NXP design teams with consistent, high-quality PDKs for advanced semiconductor technologies. Your work will improve design productivity, sign-off quality, and the integration of silicon and packaging technologies.

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