Overview

Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider, is seeking to hire an exceptional Principal CAD Engineer to join our Central CAD Team at our Bangalore, India location. The selected candidate will be joining some of the brightest inventors and engineers in the world to develop semiconductor products that make data faster and safer.

As a Principal CAD Engineer, you will play a key technical leadership role in architecting and scaling CAD tools, flows, and methodologies for a global design organization working on advanced technology nodes. The Central CAD team operates across the US and India, delivering EDA infrastructure, design methodologies, and automation solutions that enable high-performance semiconductor products, including memory interface chips, interconnect solutions, and silicon IP.

This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact problems spanning PDK enablement, design automation, and large-scale EDA infrastructure, with strong cross-functional visibility across design, CAD, and infrastructure teams.

Rambus offers a flexible work environment,



embracing a hybrid approach for the majority of our office-based roles. We encourage employees to spend an average of at least three days per week working onsite, allowing for two days of work from home.

Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and deploy scalable CAD tools, flows, and methodologies to enable efficient design and verification across advanced process nodes.
- Lead end-to-end ownership of analog/custom design flows, including schematic, layout, simulation, LVS, DRC, parasitic extraction, and EM/IR analysis.
- Develop and collaborate on PDK enablement and customization, ensuring robust, production-ready design environments across multiple technology nodes.
- Design and implement automation frameworks to improve productivity, turnaround time, and design quality using Python, SKILL, Tcl, Perl, and shell scripting.
- Own and maintain critical design collaterals (PCell libraries, st

📌 Principal CAD Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rambus
📍 Bengaluru