Senior CAD Manager — RTL-to-GDS Methodology & Infrastructure, Annapurna Labs

Annapurna Labs is hiring a Senior CAD Manager to build, lead, and scale the CAD/EDA organization driving RTL-to-GDS methodology, flow development, and analytics across multiple sites. This is a strategic leadership role responsible for defining the multi-year roadmap for digital implementation, signoff, and physical verification; building and scaling a geographically distributed CAD team; and partnering with design, DV, IT, and EDA vendors to enable next-generation SoC tape-outs at advanced nodes (5 nm / 3 nm / 2 nm and below). You will own the technical direction and operational health of the full digital backend toolchain — synthesis, place-and-route, STA, power/IR, EM, and physical verification — along with the license, dashboard, and automation infrastructure that supports it. Success in this role means a CAD organization that materially accelerates time-to-tape-out, raises PPA and signoff quality, and gives engineering leadership data-driven visibility into project health. Key job responsibilities Define and drive the multi-year roadmap for RTL-to-GDS flows across synthesis, place-and-route, STA, signoff, and physical verification; lead methodology bring-up for new technology nodes, foundry PDKs, and IP integration.

• Own the EDA tool strategy and vendor relationships; lead structured evaluations, benchmarking, license forecasting, peak-load planning, and cost optimization in partnership with procurement and finance.
• Build and scale the CAD environment — flow frameworks, regression infrastructure, run management, release engineering, CI/CD-style practices, and version control supporting multiple technology nodes.
• Own the strategy for CAD dashboards and analytics: PPA tracking, run health, signoff QoR trending, tape-out readiness scorecards, and compute/license efficiency metrics.
• Build, mentor, and scale a multi-site CAD organization; establish operating cadence, technical reviews, knowledge-sharing practices, engineering standards, and quality bars for CAD deliverables.
• Partner with physical design, DV, RTL, package, IP, and IT teams to align flow capabilities to program commitments; engage executive stakeholders on technology readiness, schedule risk, and capacity planning.