Senior Principal Product Engineer - Digital Design and EDA Tools

Principal Product Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

This position involves:

• Interfacing with customers regarding digital reference flow requirements, including
  • Synthesis
  • Floorplanning
  • Clock tree synthesis
  • Power planning
  • Place and route
  • Timing closure
  • Sign-off
• Capturing reference flow requirements, scoping effort on reference flow development
• Creating baseline flows to be used by customers as starting point for digital implementation
• Using baseline flow to implement test cases for process certification and validation
• Using implementation testcases for Tempus and Voltus sign-off
• Creating documentation explaining the theory and use behind reference flow steps and commands
• PPA optimization

Position requires:

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 12-15 years of design/EDA experience or Master’s degree with at least 10 years of experience. Master’s degree preferred.
• Strong knowledge in Digital Design Flows, Static Timing Analysis and EMIR is required
• Prior experience with ASIC digital implementation flows and EDA tools is required; Experience with advanced FinFet nodes (7nm and below) required.  Experience with GAA technologies (2nm and below) preferred.
• Good programming knowledge in Unix, Shell scripting, perl and importantly TCL
• Strong customer-facing communication and problem-solving skills
• Strong personal drive for continuous learning and expanding professional skill sets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Familiar with EDA tool operation, setup and debug:

• Digital: Genus, Innovus, Tempus, Voltus, etc

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Experience Level

Senior Level