Place and Route Principal Application Engineer

$120,400 - $223,600/Yr

Cadence Design Systems - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Jose, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Cadence, we are thrilled to welcome highly talented hardware designers and application engineers to our North America Field Applications Team. Working at Cadence means collaborating with some of the brightest minds in the industry and innovating for the most advanced companies globally. Our Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products have been instrumental in a wide range of projects, from building the world's most powerful supercomputer to advancing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. As a Digital Implementation and Signoff Field Applications Engineer, you will work closely with our leading-edge customers. Your expertise will be crucial in helping them deploy Cadence's market-leading technologies in Synthesis, Place and Route (P&R), and Signoff, enabling them to meet and exceed their Power, Performance, and Area (PPA) targets, achieve faster design closure, and turn their design concepts into reality. The greater your expertise, the more business opportunities you will help create. You will also collaborate directly with the Cadence Research and Development (R&D) group to communicate customer requirements and influence the direction of Cadence's next-generation products and technologies. At Cadence, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Talented engineers like you are essential in transforming this passion into tangible results. By engaging directly with Cadence R&D and driving customer interactions, you will deepen your knowledge in nanometer design, gain unique expertise in digital design implementation, and enhance your communication, customer, and sales skills. Regardless of where you are in your career, whether you aim to stay on the technical track, advance into management, or explore sales and marketing opportunities, the skills and expertise you acquire as an Application Engineer at Cadence will significantly accelerate your career advancement.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to Cadence customers in Backend Digital Design Implementation and Signoff including Place and Route, Design Closure, and timing/power signoff.
• Guide customers on how to best utilize Cadence technologies to achieve their design goals and meet project schedules.
• Conduct technical presentations and product demonstrations.
• Drive technical evaluations/benchmarks to success.
• Work closely with R&D to enhance the tools and methodologies to meet and exceed customer's requirements.
• Drive adoption and proliferation of Cadence tools and technologies.
• Amend and augment the flow as needed using Tcl and/or other programming skills to meet objectives and improve results/flows.
• Capture best practices and lessons learned from current evaluations/benchmarks and utilize to improve efficiency and success rate in next engagements.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of design/EDA experience.
• Strong knowledge in Digital Design Fundamentals, Semiconductor fundamentals, and Static Timing Analysis is required.
• Prior experience with IC digital implementation flows and backend EDA tools including Place and Route, IR Drop, backend design timing and power closure.
• Experience with advanced nodes 10nm and below.
• Experience in scripting languages such as Tcl/Perl/Python is a must.
• Strong customer-facing communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong personal drive for continuous learning and expanding professional skill sets.
• Strong verbal, written, and customer communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Prior experience with IC digital implementation flows and front-end EDA tools including Synthesis, DFT, and Logical Equivalence Checking.
• Prior experience with Cadence tools such as Genus, Innovus, Conformal, Tempus, Modus, and/or Voltus is highly desired.
• Experience with advanced nodes 5nm and below.

Benefits

• Paid vacation and paid holidays
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• Employee stock purchase plan
• A variety of medical, dental and vision plan options
• Incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits