Sr Application Engineer (f/m/d)

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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: Sr Application Engineer (f/m/d)

Location: Stockholm (Kista), Sweden

Reports to: AE Group Director

Job Overview:

The Cadence Application Engineer (AE) role is a great opportunity to employ your strong technical skills to enable semiconductor companies adopting Cadence solutions and associated IC design methodologies.

The Application Engineer will work with some of the most technically demanding IC design & development solutions and leading-edge silicon process technologies. The AE will support Cadence solutions with an emphasis on our leading Custom IC Virtuoso Studio platform.

The successful engineer will work with customers, account teams and product development teams supporting Cadence's Custom IC and Signoff software products including:

• Virtuoso Schematic Editor
• Virtuoso Layout Suite (XL/EXL/MXL)
• Virtuoso Analog Design Environment
• Virtuoso Studio Platform (Design Framework)
• Pegasus/PVS
• Quantus

• Supporting our customers in their use of our EDA tools for custom and mixed signal IC design with a focus on analog layout automation technologies.
• Delivering technical training and methodology services in these areas.
• Delivering technical presentations, demonstrations, and evaluations, including development of customized presentations and demos as required.
• Driving technical campaigns and product evaluations to resolve customer design challenges.
• Enabling customers' deployment of new Cadence solutions into production design flows. This includes debugging technical software and layout issues as needed.
• Developing an understanding of the customer's needs to create solutions that best meet our customer needs.
• Communicating customer requirements and feedback to Cadence product groups and marketing for issue resolution and to improve product features and quality.

• BSc required, MSc/MEng preferred in Electronic Engineering / Physics
• 3+ years' experience of analog/mixed-signal IC layout/design or CAD support, ideally within Cadence tooling and associated design methodologies
• Experience of physical verification and parasitic extraction
• Experience of UNIX environments
• Preferred knowledge of SKILL, Python or other programming languages
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• A team player who is passionate about technology but also understands business requirements
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and productively with high quality output in a fast paced and dynamic environment
• Interest and ability to learn new technologies
• Some travel will be required - mostly within the Nordic counties, but occasionally elsewhere in EMEA