Subject: PE job description reminder
From: Tim Baldwin
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:12:48 -0700

To: Joe Rahmeh , PT Patel , Sharad Mehrotra

Joe, PT, Sharad,
Next week you will be interviewing a number of PE candidates. Please take a look at the job description I've created below to get a sense of what I'm looking for in a candidate for this position. I'll be looking for your input on the technical component of the position, but feel free to offer you opinion on the non-technical components as well if you like. Thanks!
Tim

# Product Engineering Job Description

## "Tool Specialist…"

You will have the opportunity to become an acknowledged expert in the use of Pyxis' products and technology, and demonstrate Pyxis' new products and technology and generate design wins through strategic customer engagements. You will establish Pyxis as a key contributor to our customer's success and help proliferate the usage of Pyxis' tools within the customer's design environment. You will also work closely with Field AEs to transfer knowledge of using and selling Pyxis' products and technology. You will be able to develop and maintain technical skills/knowledge (be a "specialist") with deep technical knowledge in one or more focus areas.
Focus areas include:

- Timing Analysis, Clock Tree & Logic Optimization
- RC Extraction
- Placement & Routing
- Signal Integrity
- Library Development & Validation
- Chip Manufacturability and Yield

You have the skills to work closely with Sales, R&D and Marketing to provide feedback on product and technology performance in the marketplace. Your communication skills help you to relate customer requirements and feedback from engagements to the Engineering and Marketing organizations for product direction/improvements.
As part of your work with Sales, you will identify and assess (from a technology perspective) strategic opportunities, prioritize them and help develop winning sales strategies. You will develop an understanding of the customer's needs and also of the competition's technology and sales strategies. You will have the interaction of participating in customer visits, and of working closely with the customer's design team to get "Design Wins".
You will use your analytical skills to perform methodology assessments, improve existing design methodologies, develop new ones that leverage our technology and work closely with R&D to write specifications for and test new features and capabilitiess. You will also develop collateral material (application notes, documentation, presentations, training materials, etc.) to enable sharing of product knowledge with other AEs. Finally, you will share your knowledge by conducting training for AEs on new technology as required.

## What You bring:

You have strong ASIC design experience, and knowledge of synthesis, optimization, place and route, timing analysis, extraction, design for manufacturing and design for yield issues for deep sub-micron designs. You will have an added advantage if you have knowledge of key competitor ASIC design tools and flows. You also have experience with high level language such as TCL, Perl, Scheme, Skill or C++. You are excellent at problem solving, and you are a self-starter with the ability to work in a dynamic, unstructured environment with little supervision. Your strong interpersonal skills enable you to work as part of a team at Pyxis and to interact effectively with customers. You are knowledgeable about customer issues and the marketplace. You can also listen empathetically, and ask probing questions. You are able to express yourself clearly and concisely, and you impact all levels in an organization with your ability to articulate the advantages of an EDA product. You are also able to relate to AE's and customers in multiple cultures worldwide, and you are ready to travel.

## Education:

BSEE required, MSEE preferred
Experience:
3+ years in any of the following: ASIC or processor design, library or circuit design, Application Engineering
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