Lead Product Engineer: System Verification and Emulation

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Cadence Design Systems Inc. is seeking a highly motivated Lead Product Engineer: System Verification and Emulation to join our team in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

As a Lead Product Engineer: System Verification and Emulation, you will independently drive Palladium customer engagements, acting as a technical lead for deployment, adoption, and optimization of emulation-based verification flows. You will work closely with R&D teams to influence product direction, drive new feature enablement, and ensure real-world customer requirements are reflected in Cadence solutions. The objective is to increase customer productivity by delivering scalable, robust, and innovative verification methodologies using cutting-edge emulation technologies.

Cadence has been nominated as a Great Place to Work globally and in Brazil and is also a Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For.

Job Description:

• Lead Palladium hardware emulation engagements with customers, from initial deployment through advanced use-case enablement and ongoing optimization
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned customers, driving successful adoption and long-term usage of emulation-based verification flows
• Analyze complex customer verification environments and workflows to identify opportunities for improved scalability, performance, and productivity using hardware-assisted verification
• Work closely with R&D teams to provide feedback based on real customer use cases, drive enablement and validation of new features and capabilities and include product roadmap
• Develop and maintain high-quality technical collateral, reference flows, and examples for both customer engagements and internal enablement
• Collaborate with field, support, and R&D teams to reproduce, debug, and resolve complex customer-reported issues, providing clear technical root-cause analysis and recommendations
• Act as a technical mentor and subject-matter expert within the product engineering organization, sharing best practices and lessons learned across engagement

• Complete Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in RTL verification, with exposure to hardware-assisted verification (emulation or prototyping)
• Strong fundamentals in digital logic design and RTL development using Verilog/SystemVerilog
• Experience with simulation-based verification methodologies, testbench development, and debug
• Working knowledge of Linux-based development environments and common EDA workflows
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python for modeling, automation, and analysis
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to collaborate across multiple teams

• Course or project work with FPGA based designs and verification

• Employment category: CLT
• Employment term: 40 hours/week.
• Competitive benefits.
• Location: Av Contorno 5800, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil.