Staff CAD Engineer, Silicon Design Environment, Google Cloud

About the Position

Staff CAD Engineer, Silicon Design Environment, Google Cloud

Senior • On-site

Sunnyvale, CA

Shape the future of AI/ML hardware acceleration by driving TPU technology for demanding AI/ML applications. Develop custom silicon solutions and use design and verification expertise to verify complex digital designs, with a focus on TPU architecture and its integration within AI/ML-driven systems.

As a Staff CAD Engineer, Silicon Design Environment, collaborate with domain experts across the silicon development spectrum to deliver the development environment for chips powering next-generation cloud systems. Refine ambiguous intent into solutions and rally others to develop or deploy them.

Responsibilities

• Use knowledge of silicon development phases to define the architecture and lead the development and deployment of the overall CI2 design environment as a coherent system of first-party and third-party tools, industry-standard and internal APIs/data formats, and scalable design flows.
• Collaborate with technical leaders across CI2 sites to identify evolutionary and revolutionary tooling and methodology changes that enable convergence on a shared design environment.
• Engage with other internal teams to keep CI2 at the forefront of advanced silicon development.
• Ensure developed technologies optimize project iteration speed while achieving planned power, performance, cost, and quality metrics.
• Partner with tools and methodologies team members to apply procedural and AI-first approaches that improve efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in technical leadership focusing on one or more critical aspects of silicon design.
• Experience in two or more silicon disciplines, including architecture modeling, logic design, functional verification, DFT, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis, physical verification, or firmware development.
• Experience developing and deploying advanced tools and development flows that streamline the silicon lifecycle and improve engineering productivity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
• 15 years of relevant academic and industrial experience in advanced silicon development.
• Experience identifying the need for a silicon methodology change, developing a solution, and successfully deploying it with impact to more than 25 developers.
• Experience developing solutions that require bridging knowledge gaps among collaborators.
• Experience collaborating in internal or external ecosystem standardization efforts.
• Knowledge of both front-end silicon development processes-architecture, logic design, and verification-and back-end processes-logic synthesis, place and route, timing convergence, and physical verification.

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a leading tech company
• Collaborative and innovative work environment

About the Company

Google LLC started as a PhD project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 at Stanford University. Google LLC has blossomed into a behemoth of the tech world. With its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google’s search engine is its crown jewel. Online advertising, via AdWords and AdSense, forms the backbone of its financial success. Beyond search, Google has ventured into cloud computing, hardware, and software development. The innovative PageRank algorithm revolutionized search engine technology, and surviving the dot-com bubble burst and going public in 2004 spurred its meteoric growth. Acquiring YouTube stands as a testament to Google’s strategic expansion.