Hiring: Director of Software Development R&D - AI Company: Siemens EDA (Siemens Digital Industries Software) Location: Santa Clara, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-11 18:55:45 Target Skills & Keywords : Chef, Foundry, R About the job Required Skills: •Siemens EDA AI-Native Vision: Define and execute the engineering roadmap for Siemens EDA's generative and agentic AI capabilities, including multi-agent workflow orchestration, autonomous design-space exploration, natural-language tool control, and AI-powered design intelligence across functional IC, physical IC, manufacturing, 3D IC, and electronic systems workflows. •Cross-Portfolio Strategic Alignment: Partner with R&D leaders, chief architects, product management, and platform teams across the Siemens EDA portfolio—including Solido, Calibre, Questa One, Tessent, Aprisa, Veloce, Catapult, Xpedition, HyperLynx, and related solutions—to establish shared AI platform layers, unified APIs, common agent skills, consistent telemetry, and reusable infrastructure without fragmenting core engines. •Strategic Customer Engagement: Serve as a senior technical leader and trusted AI advisor for strategic Siemens EDA customers, including hyperscalers, fabless semiconductor companies, IDMs, foundries, and systems companies. Co-develop customer-relevant agentic workflows, lead technical evaluations and design reviews, and translate critical design bottlenecks into differentiated Siemens EDA product capabilities. •Foundry, IP, and Ecosystem Co-Optimization: Collaborate with leading foundries, IP providers, cloud partners, and AI ecosystem collaborators to enable secure, standards-aware workflows that incorporate PDKs, design rules, signoff collateral, reference flows, and customer design context into Siemens EDA AI runtimes while maintaining enterprise-grade governance, auditability, access controls, and IP protection. •Multi-Agent Systems & Siemens EDA Tool Integration: Architect scalable agent runtimes and tool-calling protocols that can plan, act, reflect, iterate, and execute across Siemens EDA and third-party environments through APIs, MCP-style interfaces, command-line flows, GUI integrations, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints, while preserving deterministic fallbacks and signoff-quality validation. •Organizational Leadership & Execution: Recruit, mentor, and lead high-performing teams of applied AI engineers, EDA domain experts, agentic systems archit Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!