Job Description:

As part of the CAD Methodology team, you will play a key role in developing and enhancing EDA tools and design flows that enable Microchip to deliver best-in-class semiconductor products-optimized for power, performance, area, and quality-using cutting-edge implementation methodologies and industry-leading commercial software tools.

Microchip designs products for a wide range of end markets and technologies, including some of the most advanced transistor processes available today.

A forward-looking component of this role involves building agentic AI systems that intelligently orchestrate and automate complex EDA workflows-reducing manual intervention, accelerating design closure, and surfacing actionable insights across the design flow.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with an experienced design methodology team to build a robust scripting infrastructure that improves the qualification strategy for commercial EDA tools used in digital IC design.
• Understand success criteria for various steps and tools in the design flow, then develop automation scripts to validate tool behavior across diverse test scenarios.
• Design, develop, and deploy agentic AI systems that autonomously orchestrate multi-step EDA workflows, including tool invocation, result parsing, decision-making, and iterative refinement.
• Integrate large language model (LLM)-based agents with EDA tool APIs and scripting environments (Tcl, Python) to enable natural-language-driven design flow control and intelligent debugging assistance.
• Build and maintain AI agent pipelines that monitor design metrics (timing, power, area, DRC/LVS violations) and autonomously trigger corrective actions or escalate to engineers based on configurable thresholds.
• Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows to ground AI agents in EDA tool documentation, internal methodology guidelines, and historical design data, enabling context-aware recommendations.
• Evaluate and benchmark agentic frameworks and LLM models for applicability to semiconductor CAD use cases; contribute findings back to the broader methodology team.
• Gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art semiconductor development tools, including:
• Logic synthesis
• Logical equivalence checking
• Static timing analysis
• Low-power verification
• Digital circuit layout in CMOS and FinFET technologies

What We Offer:

• Mentorship and coaching from seasoned methodology experts.
• Exposure to advanced design methodologies and leading-edge technologies.
• Opportunities to contribute to high-impact projects that shape next-generation semiconductor products.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Agentic AI (Required)

• Understanding of agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar orchestration platforms
• Experience building multi-step AI agent pipelines that integrate tool use, memory, planning, and feedback loops
• Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models) and prompt engineering techniques
• Understanding of RAG architectures - vector databases, embedding models, and document retrieval pipelines
• Ability to evaluate agent - reliability, failure modes, and guardrails in an engineering/automation context

Core Skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills
• Self-starter, organized, and motivated to learn
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills

EDA & Digital Design:

• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems
• Knowledge of digital design and HDLs (Verilog and/or VHDL)
• Knowledge of digital systems and computer architectures
• Experience with simulation and hardware verification/debug
• Strong programming and scripting skills: C/C++, Perl, Python, Tcl, Bash, C shell

Education & Experience:

• BS in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
• 0-3 years of professional experience

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Pay Range:

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading IESPP program with a 6-month look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:

Benefits of working at Microchip

The annual base salary range for this position is 76,000-$114,000.*

*Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.