Job Summary

Job Summary

- Responsible for quality assurance of PDKs, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance across design and verification flows
- Enables silicon-ready releases through rigorous QA validation, automation, and governance

Key Responsibilities

- Execute and drive QA validation across PDK components and flows
- Perform verification, regression, and issue analysis across nodes
- Ensure compliance with QA standards, documentation, and quality gates
- Lead cross-domain issue resolution with design, CAD, and customers
- Build and scale automation frameworks for QA, regression, and validation
- Drive AI adoption for failure analysis, pattern detection, and regression optimization
- Manage end-to-end QA delivery, including planning, tracking, and escalations
- Establish governance frameworks: reviews, audits, documentation standards
- Mentor teams and improve QA competency and best practices
- Drive multi-project QA execution and cross-team alignment
- Define organization-wide QA strategy, roadmap, and transformation initiatives

Key Responsibilities

- Solid understanding of PDK QA flows, physical verification,



and design validation
- Expertise in DRC/LVS/verification methodologies
- Proficiency in EDA tools (Cadence/Synopsys/Verification tools)
- Strong scripting knowledge: Python, SKILL, Shell
- Capability to design automation frameworks and scalable QA systems
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to lead teams, drive delivery, and manage customer interactions

Skill Requirements

- Cadence / Synopsys Custom Tools
- Calibre, ICV, Pegasus, PVS
- Python, SKILL, Shell, Tcl, Ruby
- Automation & AI-driven QA frameworks
- Version control and CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

- B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech in Electronics / Electrical / VLSI or related field
- 12 to 15 yrs experience in PDK QA, CAD, physical verification, or design automation

Must Have Skill

AMS PDK

Good to Have Skill

Other Requirements

Nice to Have

- Experience in multi-node QA environments
- Automation framework development
- Customer-facing QA delivery experience
- AI/ML usage in QA workflows

📌 Senior Technical Architect (India)
🏢 Sankalp Semiconductor Private
📍 India