Jr. CAD/PDK Engineers Microelectronics in Sofia

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF), the world’s leading specialty foundry, announced today that it has acquired the PDK (Process Design Kit) engineering team from Smartcom Bulgaria AD in Sofia, Bulgaria. The newly acquired team will enhance GF’s scale and capabilities, while strengthening competitiveness of its specialized application solutions to further position the company for growth and value creation.
Process Design Kits are the critical interface between a company’s integrated circuit (IC) design and the fabs, which manufacture the clients chip products. Since, Smartcom has supported GF’s PDK development and quality assurance for platform technologies spanning from 350nm to 12nm. Under the terms of the acquisition, GF will acquire Smartcom’s PDK development team of more than 125 employees. 
With this acquisition, GF is expanding its worldwide design enablement capabilities and strengthening its European footprint. The Sofia operations build on GF’s long established Fab 1 operations in Dresden, Germany, the company’s Bump Test Facility (BTF) and the AMTC mask house, a joint venture with Toppan. 
In addition to the current excellent Team, we are looking to significantly hire additional talent for the Bulgaria Team in Sofia immediately. We are looking for ....

Junior CAD/PDK Engineers Microelectronics
in Sofia, Bulgaria

As a Design Enablement Engineer, you will be a member of the Design Enablement Team responsible for developing design components for Process Design Kits (PDK). We offer specialized training.

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Physics, Computer Science or equivalent.
• 0-2 years of work experience in semiconductor and/or EDA industries.
• Excellent technical problem solving skills.
• Fluent in English – both written and verbal.
• Good attitude and interpersonal skills, tactful and works well in a team environment.
• Self-motivated, resourceful and shows initiative.
• Well organized and exhibits attention to detail.

Desired Qualifications 

• Good knowledge of electronic devices and semiconductor theory.
• Experience with CAD systems in Electronics (Cadence IC, Cadence OrCAD, Protel or similar);
• Experience with scripting languages (Perl, Tcl, Bash...) is a plus
• Exposure to Cadence IC (Virtuoso Layout, Schematic or Skill programming language) is a plus;
• Previous experience with Unix/Linux systems is also a plus.

We Offer:

• Specialized training;
• Working in a highly qualified team of professionals;
• Attractive remuneration package;
• Excellent working conditions;
• Dynamic job in a friendly team environment;