Digital EDA / CAD Engineer

Confidential

Saint-Sulpice Hybrid permanent

Posted: January 30, 2026

Required Skills

Job Description

Challenges are our drive, innovation our calling. We at Kandou are a team of passionate accomplished professionals making a mark in the semiconductor industry. We're an innovative leader in high-speed and energy efficient chip-chip link solutions critical to the evolution of the electronics industry, continuously developing to meet the demands of not just the customers of today, but of tomorrow too. If you love to be part of a high-tech scale-up and are motivated by pushing your limits and challenging the status quo, we have an opportunity for you.

We are actively seeking a Digital EDA/CAD Engineer, based in either UK (Reading) or Lausanne, Switzerland.

Key Responsibilities

Contribute as part of a responsive team to define and implement IC design tools, flows, and methodologies.

Lead and support tool evaluation, selection, consensus-building, deployment, and flow development.

Deliver training to engineering design teams.

Work with EDA/CAD vendors to resolve tool issues and help design teams reach timely, practical solutions.

Contribute to company-wide alignment on design tools, flows, and methodologies.

Skills

Excellent programming skills: Shell, Python, Perl, Tcl, SKILL; GUI development; Make.

Deep understanding of the chip design process and of digital, analog, and mixed-signal IC design flows.

Proficiency building robust EDA/CAD flows while balancing stakeholder needs.

(Preferred) Some RTL coding; basic knowledge of SystemVerilog and VHDL.

Ability to quickly learn, maintain, and enhance complex software design tools.

Strong collaboration skills across EDA/CAD and engineering teams.

Skilled at debugging issues, documenting solutions/flows, and creating clear user guides.

Experience

Bachelor or Master of Science Degree, in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science.

7+ years across front-end and back-end digital design flows (e.g., netlist generation, simulation, synthesis, place & route, parasitic extraction, STA, EM/IR analysis, physical verification, DFT, ATPG).

Experience with Cadence Voltus (or similar) and on-die power integrity (IR-drop, electromigration).

Hands-on use of industry-standard EDA tools, methodologies, licensing, and release processes.

Proven track record developing code to create/improve automation tools for design engineers.

Working knowledge of software development methods, system architecture, and operating systems.

Strong data management experience (e.g., Git, Cliosoft) for multi-project / multi-discipline flows and database tagging.

Experience implementing and following processes required for quality certification.

If this is the role you have been looking for and want to be part of a growing company with an exciting future, we would really love to hear from you. Together We Kandou It!

Visit us at www.kandou.ai and https://www.linkedin.com/company/kandou-ai/

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