Position: Principal Software Engineer Grade: T4

Company Overview: Cadence Design Systems is a leader in the world of technology, hiring innovators to make an impact.

Product: Genus Synthesis Solution - a complete product encompassing logic synthesis and physical design.

Core Responsibilities (General):

Designing, developing, troubleshooting, debugging, and supporting the Genus software product.
Creating innovative technologies for leadership in the EDA space.

Day-to-Day Job Responsibilities:

Design, Implementation, and Validation: Developing new synthesis optimization algorithms to improve timing, area, and power design metrics.
Analysis: Validating these algorithms on benchmark designs to measure improvements.
R&D Support: Assisting application and product engineers with customer issues, including problem analysis, debugging, fixing, and developing new features/enhancements for better synthesis results (timing, area, power).

Work Environment & Culture:

Intellectually stimulating and challenging problem domain.
Significant research element; truly innovative work where answers are not always known upfront.
Mentoring and support provided for contribution to EDA and development of professional software engineering skills.

Job Qualifications:

Education:

Experience:

Required Skills:

Proficient in C/C++: Essential for the role.
Excellent programming and software engineering skills: Crucial for development and problem-solving.
Experience with UNIX and/or LINUX Platforms: Preferred.
RTL knowledge (System Verilog, VHDL): Preferred.
Strong knowledge of Tcl: Preferred.
Experience in language compiler: Important for synthesis work.
Prior experience with large software development projects: Highly recommended.
Prior experience with timing analysis software development projects: Highly recommended.
Data structure and algorithmic skills: Fundamental for optimization and problem-solving.

Principal Software Engineer