Company Overview
Berkeley Design Automation, Inc. is the recognized leader in nanometer circuit verification. The company combines the world’s fastest nanometer circuit verification platform, Analog FastSPICE, with exceptional application expertise to uniquely address nanometer circuit design challenges. More than 100 companies rely on Berkeley Design Automation to verify their nanometer-scale circuits. Berkeley Design Automation has received numerous industry awards and is widely recognized for its technology leadership and contributions to the electronics industry.

Position Description
The Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) in this role will be responsible for developing, enhancing and maintaining circuit verification tool front-ends which mainly consist of netlist parsers and APIs to core simulators and third party tools. A successful candidate will have sufficient compiler front end experience applied to EDA tools and will preferably have worked on circuit verification tools. The SMTS will work closely with circuit simulator developers and application engineers.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain front-end parsers and APIs to core circuit simulation engines.
• Improve and maintain performance of tools’ front-end components for large circuits including handling of difficult corner cases.
• Maintain compatibility with prevalent circuit netlist languages/formats.
• Develop and maintain interfaces to third party APIs.
• Independently solve problems and exercise judgment to extend and maintain quality, performance and functionality of netlist parsers and other front-end components.
  

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in areas related to EDA tools parsers and language front-ends.
• Excellent knowledge of principles of compilers.
• Outstanding programming skills in C/C++.
• Solid background in object-oriented design, high-performance data structures and algorithms, and software engineering processes.
• Excellent background in developing software using Linux environments. Self motivated individual with excellent problem solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a worldwide development organization.
• MSEE or MSCS.
  

Desirable

• Previous experience in implementing front ends for SPICE based circuit simulators.
• Familiarity with Verilog-A and Verilog-AMS