Principal Application Engineer (Team Lead)

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Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.

Cadence customers are the world's most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

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

Job Title: Principal Application Engineer (Team Lead)

Location: Katowice, Poland

Reports to: Application Engineering Group Director

Job Overview:

As an AE Team Lead for Emulation and Prototyping, you will lead and develop a team of Application Engineers supporting customers in deploying Cadence's emulation and prototyping solutions.

This is a customer-facing leadership role combining technical expertise, hands-on problem solving, and team development. You will play a key role in helping customers achieve successful outcomes while supporting and growing your team.

The role is based in the Cadence Katowice office and follows a remote engagement model, primarily supporting customers in Israel.

Job Responsibilities:

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and support the development of a team of Application Engineers
• Provide technical guidance and contribute hands-on when needed
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment

• Support successful customer outcomes across emulation engagements
• Build strong working relationships with customer engineering teams
• Act as a point of escalation for technical challenges
• Align team activities with broader account objectives

• Contribute to the design and deployment of emulation and prototyping solutions
• Guide debugging, acceleration flows, and development methodologies
• Support evaluations, benchmarks, and proof-of-concept (PoC) activities

• Support delivery of pre-sales and post-sales engagements
• Partner with account teams on technical initiatives
• Manage multiple priorities across customers and projects

• Work closely with Sales, R&D, and global Application Engineering teams
• Help ensure customer requirements are clearly communicated and addressed

• Experience in SoC (System-on-Chip) design and/or verification
• Hands-on experience with emulation or FPGA prototyping
• Strong debug skills (e.g. RTL using SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL)
• Understanding of verification methodologies (e.g. UVM)
• Experience supporting customers or working in customer-facing technical roles
• Ability to collaborate with distributed teams and remote customers

• Experience mentoring, guiding, or leading engineers (formal or informal leadership experience welcomed)
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills

• BS/MS degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Typically, 8+ years of relevant experience

• Must be EU national or eligible to stay and work in Poland

• Competitive salary package adequate to competencies
• Work from office or hybrid
• Continuous professional development: trainings and seminars
• Possibility to cooperate with people from around the world in an expanding global organization
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan, bonuses and stocks
• Private medical care
• Life insurance
• Multisport Plus cards
• Social Fund benefits
• Recommendation bonuses & Internal recognition program
• Additional paid days off