Senior Staff Design Application Engineer (f/m/div)

Are you ready to design the future and leave your mark on cutting-edge mixed-signal IC development? At Infineon Austria, we're looking for a Design Application Engineer who can bridge the gap between chip designers and design environments. If you thrive on enabling innovation, optimizing workflows, and turning complex challenges into seamless solutions, this is your chance to join a team that powers tomorrow's technology--today.

Location Villach, Villach

Entry level 5+ years

Job ID HRC1157643

Start Feb 17, 2025

Type Full time

Contract Permanent

As a key player in our R&D mixed-signal IC design team, you'll support chip designers by ensuring smooth and efficient development workflows. You'll provide first-level support for EDA tools, proactively optimize methodologies, and implement quick fixes to keep projects on track. Collaborating closely with internal teams, you'll drive improvements, roll out new design solutions, and contribute to a global community of experts.

In your new role you will:

• Work in the R&D mixed-signal IC design organization
• Support R&D chip designers for daily issues related to mixed-signal IC development flow and related EDA software tools and methodology (1stlevel support)
• Proactively consult chip design projects to ensure proper and efficient usage of working environment, software tools and related methodology
• Collect application specific requirements to the design environment and provide fast solutions (e.g. hot fixes) where needed
• Trigger and track implementation of enhancements of the design environment to ensure on-time availability for productive usage
• Work closely with internal software tool and methodology providers on improving and developing new solutions
• Promote new methodology solutions and support the roll-out of these in design projects
• Share knowledge within the (IFX world-wide) "Design Application Engineering Community

You are best equipped if you have:

• A university Master degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• At least 5+ years of experience in mixed signal IC design/layout/verification or support
• Programming skills: Python, Perl, Tcl, SKILL (Cadence)
• Knowledge of design languages: System Verilog and or VHDL
• Strong experience with Unix/Linux and Compute Farm environment (e.g.Load Sharing Facility/LSF)
• Experience with mixed-signal EDA tools like Cadence (Virtuoso, Spectre,Xcelium, AMS-Designer, Genus, Innovus), Synopsys (DC, ICC) and Siemens/Mentor (Calibre, Solido)
• Know-how in full custom layout design techniques will be an added advantage
• Strong team playing and customer orientation skills
• Good English skills with German as a strong plus

We offer competitive salaries and additional benefits based on your performance, experience and qualification. The employment is in accordance with the collective salary and wage agreement for employees of the electrical and electronics industry, employment group H (https://www.feei.at/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/minimum-salaries-white-collar-workers-2024.pdf). The monthly salary is paid 14 times p.a. We offer a higher compensation depending on your expertise and skills.

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The central R&D organization „Design Enabling and Services" (DES) provides the design environments (design-systems) to the different product development teams at Infineon. With leading edge design methods, complex building blocks and a wide range of product development services DES enables Infineons advanced IC development. This means the complete value creation chain from abstract system models down to the fully verified product layout which ensures high quality manufacturing readiness.

At Infineon in Villach you shape the technologies of tomorrow and work in an international environment with more than 4700 colleagues from over 70 nations. Your personal contribution will be valued and appreciated as the cornerstones of our success. And all that in beautiful surroundings which guarantee a high quality of life.

The City of Villach is located in the center of Carinthia, Austria's southernmost province, in close proximity to the Italian and Slovenian border. Due to its particular geographic location and the outstanding natural beauty of the region, Villach and the whole province of Carinthia have for generations been popular holiday destinations for people from all over the world. Living in Austria also has many social, health-care-related and economic perks. The country's social and health care system is among the best in the world and for decades numerous international surveys have singled out Austria as a particularly safe and wealthy country with a high quality of life. Villach benefits from its status as a "small town", offering everyday living at affordable prices in an outstanding setting.

Find out what you like most about Villach and join us:
https://www.welcome2villach.at/

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We look forward to receiving your resume, even if you do not entirely meet all the requirements of the job posting.
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