Technical Director, Digital Design Methodology & Flow Architecture

About the role

NXP is looking for a Technical Director to define and deploy a repeatable, traceable and customizable end-to-end digital design flow for advanced process technologies. The role combines RTL-to-GDS implementation expertise, static verification, PPA optimization, AI tool enablement and hands-on agentic flow development.

Key responsibilities

• Architect a modular RTL-to-GDS flow covering synthesis, place and route, timing/power closure, static verification, signoff and GDS delivery.
• Enable agentic execution, AI-assisted debugging, design-space exploration and automated analysis loops for EDA workflows.
• Establish repeatable, traceable flow practices: standard recipes, configuration baselines, metrics, dashboards, audit trails, regression checks and release management.
• Deploy flows for new process technologies with design, CAD/methodology, foundry and EDA vendor teams.
• Improve productivity, turnaround time, quality-of-results and PPA through automation, methodology tuning and scalable reuse.

Required profile

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related field; M.S. or Ph.D. preferred.
• Director-level technical leadership in digital design, CAD/methodology, EDA implementation or flow architecture.
• Proven ability to set technical direction, influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional flow transformation.

Required skills

• RTL-to-GDS, static design and timing analysis, formal/static verification, signoff, ECO and PPA closure.
• Synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, clock-tree synthesis, power optimization and congestion analysis.
• Hands-on agentic AI workflow development and practical MCP experience (clients/servers, JSON-RPC-style communication).
• Scripting and automation in Tcl, Python, Perl or shell.
• EDA ecosystems such as Synopsys, Cadence or Siemens EDA.
• Preferred: AI-enabled EDA, agent orchestration, MCP connectors and production flows with observability and release management.