Staff CAD Engineer, Silicon Design, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10 years required; 15 years preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads development and deployment of a scalable silicon design environment and tooling for Google’s TPU and other advanced silicon projects.
What you'll do
- Lead the architecture and deployment of the CI2 design environment, integrating tools, APIs, data formats, and design flows.
- Work across teams to improve shared silicon tools and methodologies and keep development practices at the forefront.
- Apply procedural and AI-first approaches to improve efficiency while optimizing iteration speed and project metrics.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of technical leadership experience focused on one or more critical aspects of silicon design.
- Experience in two or more silicon disciplines, such as architecture modeling, logic design, functional verification, or place and route.
- Experience developing and deploying advanced silicon tools and flows, and developing tools in one or more programming languages such as Python or C/C++.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, emphasizing computer architecture.
- 15 years of relevant academic and industrial experience in advanced silicon development.
Pay
$192000 - $278000 USD base salary
Tools
TPU, Python, C/C++, CI2
AI focus
Supports AI/ML hardware acceleration through TPU silicon development; applies AI-first approaches to improve engineering efficiency.
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