# Physical Design - CAD Lead at Efficient Computer

- Company: Efficient Computer
- What the company does: Efficient Computer builds the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose AI chips, delivering up to 100× better efficiency than low-power CPUs. Backed by USV.
- Company website: https://www.efficient.computer/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, Bay Area OR Pittsburgh, PA OR Austin, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/efficientcomputer/jobs/4140439009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/efficient-computer-physical-design-cad-lead/

## About the role

Efficient is seeking a CAD Lead - PD flows/infrastructure to join our growing team. The ideal CAD Lead would have worked on significant portion of the full gamut of Physical Design flows and flow infrastructure (flowtracer etc). This role is in a newly formed hardware engineering group and is the seed hire for this discipline. You will get to setup CAD flows and infra from scratch and influence and shape this aspect in the future.

## What they're looking for

- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of industry experience or PhD in Electrical Engineering with 3+ years of industry experience
- Strong python other scripting programming skills
- Experience in developing workflow orchestration infrastructure or tools for hardware development (Airflow, flowtracer etc)
- Familiarity with kubernetes and containerization
- Experience implementing regression frameworks
- SQL or other database proficiency (MongoDB ..)

Tags: Physical Design