Advanced Layout Automation Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Advanced Layout Automation Engineer - 830. Location: Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, USA

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with design and fabrication scientists to develop mask layouts for next-generation ion trap devices.
• Develop scripting and automation tools for layout routing and verification to accelerate design timelines.
• Work with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure layouts follow industry best practices.
• Coordinate with semiconductor foundries to ensure layouts and tapeouts comply with process design kits (PDKs) and manufacturing requirements.
• Design, verify, and optimize hierarchical IC and MEMS layouts using EDA tools;
• Develop automation solutions using scripting, machine learning, and layout optimization techniques.
• Support layout verification and tapeout processes for production-ready designs.
• Work with multiple foundries and incorporate new design rules into layout workflows.
• Contribute to silicon photonics and MEMS layout development where applicable.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary R&D teams throughout the design and fabrication process.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with hierarchical IC or MEMS layout using EDA tools such as Cadence Virtuoso or KLayout from initial design through tapeout.
• Must be authorized to work as a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, green card holder, refugee, or asylee).
• Must satisfy U.S. government national security requirements.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with integrated circuit layout and simulation using Cadence Virtuoso.
• Experience developing automation tools, space-based routers, and machine learning solutions for layout workflows.
• Minimum 5 years of experience completing tapeouts and delivering layouts to mask shops.
• Experience working with external semiconductor foundries and multiple PDKs;
• Familiarity with new design rule implementation.
• Experience using Linux operating systems.
• Experience with SKILL scripting and Python libraries such as GDSpy.
• Minimum 2 years of experience using MEMS layout tools such as L-Edit or KLayout.
• Experience with silicon photonics layout.
• Experience working in cross-functional research and development environments.

Benefits and Compensation:

• Annual salary: $116,000 to $140,000, based on skills, experience, and qualifications.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match and student loan repayment benefit.
• Equity compensation opportunities.
• Twelve paid holidays each year;
• Generous vacation and paid sick leave.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee discount programs.
• Opportunity to work on industry-leading quantum computing technologies with a global team of scientists and engineers.

Other Information:

• This is a hybrid position based in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no fixed application deadline;
• Quantinuum may use AI tools during portions of the hiring process, but all final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters.
• Quantinuum is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.