Associate Principal Engineer (P&R)
SiemensJob Title
Associate Principal Engineer (P&R)
Role Summary
Product engineer on the Siemens EDA P&R team responsible for enabling, deploying and supporting APRISA physical design solutions for IC customers. The role works with customers, foundries, and internal R&D to certify flows, resolve technical issues, and drive product adoption in production environments.
Experience Level
Senior. See Education Requirements for specific years-of-experience guidance.
Responsibilities
Principal responsibilities include customer engagement, technical enablement, and cross-team collaboration to deliver production-ready P&R solutions.
- Interface with customer engineers and managers to develop or enhance CAD design and manufacturing processes.
- Enable adoption and deployment of Siemens EDA P&R solutions into customer production flows.
- Provide technical support and troubleshooting to ensure customer success and broader product use.
- Collaborate with foundries to achieve technology enablement and advanced-node certification.
- Work with internal R&D to improve APRISA for advanced process support and to communicate software issues to product development.
- Benchmark and demonstrate core product technology to customers; act as the technical liaison between customers and R&D.
Requirements
Key skills and experience required or strongly preferred.
- Must-have: Hands-on ASIC/SoC back-end (Place & Route) experience and practical knowledge of full APR flow (timing, congestion analysis, low-power methodology, physical verification).
- Must-have: Strong experience with P&R tools (Siemens EDA tools or competitive EDA tools) and customer-facing technical support.
- Must-have: Good communication skills in English and Chinese, plus self-motivation and confidence for customer engagements.
- Nice-to-have: Experience with 28nm or below / advanced process nodes and foundry collaboration for certification.
- Nice-to-have: Synthesis experience and deeper knowledge of advanced-node flow optimizations.
Education Requirements
Master's degree with 3–5 years of relevant working experience, or Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of relevant working experience in IC design. Relevant fields include Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other related technical disciplines. (These degree and years-of-experience expectations were specified in the source.)
About the Company
Company: Siemens
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Siemens EDA is a leading global provider of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products and systems. Their innovative solutions enable companies to enhance the development of electronic products efficiently and effectively, keeping pace with the complex demands of technology and physics. Siemens is committed to delivering advanced workflow solutions that integrate both EDA and MCAD tools for multi-domain design and manufacturing in the semiconductor industry.
