Front-End Digital Implementation EDA Applications Engineer

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

Ideal candidate is a highly motivated applications engineer, who leverages technical skills and design knowledge to showcase Cadence products, maximizing product sales. This role is targeted for a front-end digital applications engineering role, including mastery of logical/physical digital synthesis, power analysis, and equivalency/formal verification. Flexible individuals possessing complementary digital implementation skills and willing to master these skills are also desirable. The candidate participates in pre-sales, post-sales and methodology customization to configure and optimize results to exceed customer expectations. A high energy personality will necessarily develop strong and enduring customer relationships. An innate curiosity will propel this candidate to learn, master and deploy advanced methodologies. A collaborative spirit inspires teamwork with colleagues from sales, product engineering and R&D. Since time is of the essence, this candidate is continually seeking to identify solutions quickly and efficiently. Superb written and verbal communication skills streamline the sales and problem resolution process. Candidate has practical working experience with advanced FINFET node flows and methodologies. Travel to visit customers is required.

• Must haves
  • RTL Design
  • Logic/physical synthesis (Design Compiler, Genus, Joules)
  • Logic and low power verification, UPF expertise (Conformal, Formality)
  • Static timing (STA) and power analysis (Tempus, Primetime, Voltus, PTPX)
  • Design-For-Test (DFT) (Tessent, Modus, Tetramax)
  • Physical floorplan creation, shaping, optimization
  • Design Constraints (Spyglass, Litmus)
  • Design closure and TAT reduction skills
  • Coding expertise in TCL, Python
  • Debug, triage, problem-solving skills
  • Sense of urgency, curious, self-aware and self-motivated (emotionally intelligent)
  • Committed to customer success, team player
  • Proactive communicator, results-centric
  • Comfortable presenting to large audiences, performing product demos
  • Flexible working hours to collaborate and coordinate world-wide internal and customer meetings
  • Expect to travel for customer face-to-face visits twice per quarter
• Nice to have
  • Place-and-route expertise
  • Machine learning knowledge and expertise
  • RTL coding experience
  • US citizenship, green card
• Location: Remote in US or Canada is fine: Preferred region: Southwest, Pacific NW, Midwest, Canada