Product Engineering Consultant

Job Title

Product Engineering Consultant

Role Summary

Serve as a principal technical authority for Siemens EDA’s Calibre DRC product line, advising on physical verification methodologies, product direction, and customer deployment strategies. The role partners with R&D, product engineering, field teams, and strategic customers to prototype, evaluate, and transition new capabilities while resolving high‑impact technical issues. Hybrid role based in Montreal.

Experience Level

Mid-level (mid‑career). Specific years of experience not stated.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide deep technical leadership for Calibre DRC, influencing product strategy and feature prioritization.
• Identify emerging customer requirements, industry trends, and technology inflections relevant to physical verification.
• Define, characterize, and prioritize new product capabilities and transition prototypes into production releases.
• Lead resolution of the most challenging customer technical issues and develop scalable solutions and best practices.
• Optimize tool performance and scalability across hardware, deployment configuration, rule-writing methodologies, and workflows.
• Act as a trusted advisor to strategic customers to drive adoption of advanced flows and methodologies.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across application engineering, global support, product management, and development teams.
• Create and deliver technical presentations, training, white papers, and application notes for internal and external audiences.
• Mentor and develop engineers across the organization.
• Travel domestically and internationally as required to support customer and business objectives.

Requirements

Core qualifications and expectations:

• Must-have: Demonstrated deep expertise in physical verification methodologies and the Calibre DRC product line or equivalent physical verification tools.
• Proven experience resolving complex customer technical issues and delivering scalable solutions in a semiconductor design or manufacturing context.
• Experience driving technical strategy, defining product capabilities, and partnering with R&D/product teams.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and to mentor engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to present complex technical concepts to technical and senior stakeholders.
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally as needed.
• Nice-to-have: Experience optimizing tool performance and scalability across hardware and deployment configurations; prior customer-facing field or application engineering experience.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

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.