Lead Design Engineer

Jun 18, 2026 Pune, India

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Cadence is a pivotal leader in computational software.

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

Job Responsibilities:

The Candidate will have design responsibility, including floor planning, power grid design, place and route, clock tree synthesis, timing/SI closure, power / EM-IR signoff, physical verification (DRC/LVS/Antenna), and DFM Closure.
Physical design implementation of state-of-the-art Cadence IPs using Cadence EDA tools - Genus, Innovus, Tempus, Voltus and other backend tools
Physical design for PPA optimization of performance and power-oriented best-in-class interface IPs such as DDR, LPDDR, PCIE, UCIE, etc and test chips for advanced process nodes, such as 7nm/5nm/3nm/2nm
An opportunity to work on many varieties of challenging designs, i.e., low power, high-speed and area optimized designs.
Work closely with RTL design team & Analog Team to ensure on-time, successful tapeouts.

Required skills -

B.Tech/BE/ME/Mtech with 4-6 years hands-on experience in physical design and physical verification.
Experienced with ASIC design flow, hierarchical physical design strategies, methodologies and understand deep sub-micron technology issues.
Solid knowledge on physical design, static timing analysis, Low Power Design, EM/IR /crosstalk analysis, formal verification, physical verification, DFM, DFT.
Successful track records of taping out complex IP's & SoC's at 16/10/7/5/3 nm with different foundries.
Power user of Cadence implementation tools, such as Genus, Innovus, Quantus, Tempus, PVS, Voltus will be an added advantage
Automation and programming-minded, coding experience in Makefile/Tcl/Tk/Perl/python assisted with AI.
Should have excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, should be self-motivated and good team player

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