CAD Manager (W/M)

CAD Manager (W/M)

As a subsidiary of SEALSQ CORP (NASDAQ: LAES), based in Grenoble and Toulouse, IC’Alps designs analog and digital integrated circuits (“ASIC – Application Specific Integrated Circuit”) for medical applications, as well as for the automotive, security, and other markets.

As part of our continued growth, we are looking for an CAD Manager (W/M) to join our team and play a key role in supporting the company’s performance and development.

The Role

As CAD Manager, you will ensure a reliable, high-performance design environment while driving the continuous improvement of methodologies, tools and flows to shorten product development cycles.

You will be responsible for developing, qualifying and supporting a state-of-the-art design infrastructure within a multi-site CAD team, working closely with specialist teams (physical implementation, analog, digital, layout, etc.), IT and management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and develop the CAD roadmap (tools, budget, schedule and future technologies) with specialist teams, IT and management
  • Ensure a reliable, standardized design environment across all sites, in compliance with quality requirements (ISO 26262 / ISO 13485)
  • Manage a multi-site team of CAD engineers, oversee CAD activities and supervise user support
  • Drive productivity through IP reuse, automation, AI and standardized methodologies, using pilot projects with R&D teams, and measure the resulting gains
  • Anticipate future needs in design technologies, methodologies and infrastructure, and maintain roadmaps and adoption plans with the design teams
  • Lead the strategy and external EDA partnerships together with Procurement and the COO
  • Identify the building blocks (IP and subsystems) to be developed to strengthen project performance and competitiveness
  • Lead infrastructure and tooling projects to optimize efficiency, quality and the resources deployed
  • Keep most CAD resources focused on customer and advanced development projects, coordinating priorities across the organization

Your Profile

  • Engineering degree in electronics/microelectronics
  • Experience: At least 10 years’ experience in a CAD environment for integrated circuits, with knowledge of one or more design disciplines (digital, analog, layout, verification, etc.)
  • Tools:
    • Good knowledge of EDA tools and Linux
    • Proficiency in one or more programming languages (SKILL, Perl, C++, Tcl, Python, etc.)
  • Broad knowledge of design kits and technologies
  • Basic knowledge of artificial intelligence
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to manage, train and unite a multi-site team
  • Curiosity about applications
  • Fluent English and French

Conditions

  • Type of employment: permanent, full time
  • Location: Grenoble or Toulouse (multi-site)
  • Salary: competitive package, depending on experience
  • Benefits: RTT, home office policy, health insurance (free for employees) and retirement plan, meal card (€8.90/day), employee savings plan, profit-sharing, transportation allowance…

Why Join Us?

You will join a group where everyone’s ideas are considered, with a rigorous approach to work, fast decision-making, ambitious goals and an open way of working.

So, if you like to take part as a team in a project as a whole from the requirements specifications serving the customers’ applications, to the measurements on silicon and the production monitoring, if you are curious, passionate and motivated to learn new skills and share your own, do not hesitate!

Join a dynamic company to take technical challenges as a team, in designing integrated circuits for diverse application needs, and contact us and/or apply by sending us your resume and cover letter to careers@icalps.com.