Product Engineer – AI-Driven Analog Chip Design
SiemensJob Title
Product Engineer – AI-Driven Analog Chip Design
Role Summary
Product Engineer on the AI-driven analog and custom IC design team in Santa Clara, CA. Work at the intersection of semiconductor design, AI, product strategy, and customer engagement to define and deliver automation products for analog, standard cell, and custom digital design flows.
Role focuses on translating customer needs into product requirements, defining workflows and success metrics, and driving early deployments and adoption with engineering teams and customers.
Experience Level
Mid-level. No specific years-of-experience requirement stated.
Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include product definition, customer engagement, and coordinating delivery of design automation solutions.
- Define product requirements and workflows for next-generation design automation solutions.
- Engage directly with customers to gather requirements, validate solutions, and drive adoption.
- Drive product direction across analog design, standard cell design, custom digital implementation, design migration, and automation.
- Partner with engineering teams to translate customer needs into capabilities and deliverables.
- Define use cases, success metrics, benchmarks, and customer adoption strategies.
- Lead evaluations, demonstrations, customer engagements, and early-access deployments.
- Influence roadmap priorities using market needs, customer feedback, and competitive analysis.
Requirements
Must-have technical and customer-facing qualifications. Preferred items listed separately.
- Experience in semiconductor design, EDA, or related technical fields.
- Proven experience defining solutions, workflows, or products that were delivered to users or customers.
- Experience applying automation, AI, machine learning, generative AI, or agentic AI to engineering workflows.
- Strong understanding of one or more domains: analog & custom IC design; standard cell design & optimization; physical implementation; design migration & reuse; semiconductor design automation; physical verification, extraction, and simulation workflows.
- Experience working directly with customers to gather requirements and drive technology adoption.
- Strong communication, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively across product management, engineering, sales, and customer teams.
Nice-to-have:
- Experience with analog and custom IC design workflows, circuit simulation (SPICE), analog verification flows, DRC/LVS/parasitic extraction.
- Familiarity with OpenAccess-based design environments and commercial EDA platforms such as Cadence Virtuoso.
- Experience delivering software products used in production semiconductor design flows and technical leadership in multi-functional teams.
Education Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field is listed as required. A Master's degree in EE/CE or related field is listed as preferred. (No specific certifications or equivalent-experience language was provided.)
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.
