Senior Software Engineer

Siemens Digital Industries Software - Where today meets tomorrow.

Let's make the difference together!

Siemens EDA, is a global technology leader in Electronic Design Automation, providing software solutions that help engineers around the world design and manufacture new and highly innovative electronic products. Each year, our customers use our tools to push the boundaries of technology and physics in order to deliver smaller, faster and more reliable products that run the world's high tech devices.

About the role

This position will be part of the AFS R&D team, focused on circuit simulation. As a key member of a highly proficient, productive, and motivated R&D team, developing industry's leading circuit simulator, using cutting edge software development techniques, you will be offered:

• Technical challenges to solve toughest nanometer scale circuit verification problems for the leading semiconductor companies in the world.
• A motivating, stimulating, and rewarding work environment
• Excellent training and growth opportunities throughout your career
• Attractive compensation and benefits

• Develop new and compatibility features for the core circuit simulator.
• Participate in the specification, architecture, design, and development of features
• Enhance core circuit simulator, e.g., performance, accuracy, capacity, convergence.
• Maintain and enhance compatibility with other simulators.
• Profile and identify bottlenecks in performance of various analyses for very large circuits.
• Improve numerical algorithms used in the core engine.
• Debug difficult testcases with accuracy, performance, capacity, or functional issues.
• Extend and maintain the capabilities of the AFS circuit simulator.
• Be a force for improving development processes and product quality.
• Work effectively with globally distributed engineering teams and the Product Validation team

• Strong background in developing efficient, high-quality software for engineering applications using numerical methods and sparse matrix techniques
• Deep understanding of numerical methods and sparse matrix techniques
• Working knowledge of analog electrical circuit analysis
• Outstanding programming skills in C and C++, preferably on Linux platform
• Proficiency in memory optimization, high-performance data structures and algorithms
• Advanced multithreading programming experience.
• Understanding of advanced computer architectures
• Solid background in object-oriented design and software engineering processes.
• Self-motivated individual with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Highly motivated to work in globally distributed engineering environment
• M.S or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or relevant area

• Understanding of the internal workings of a circuit simulator
• Knowledge of Verilog-A and modeling in Verilog-A.
• Background in semiconductor devices and their modeling
• Python programming experience
• EDA industry level work experience