Principal Product Engineer

This opportunity is for a Principal Product Engineer in the Digital and Signoff Group (DSG) at Cadence. The Cadence Digital and Signoff Group will offer you a dynamic environment in which you will work with innovative R&D and Customer Engagement teams to influence the development of software tools for advanced chip design platforms.

As a Principal Product Engineer for Liberate, you will engineer innovative and quality characterization solutions/methods for foundational IPs, working closely with R&D and fellow engineers.

You will work on customer activities, run competitive benchmarks, develop flows and solutions to proliferate our technologies at customers.

You will also work very closely with customers to drive product adoptions and campaigns, as well as drive partnership and collaborative projects with customers.

Experience and Technical Skills Required

Foundational IP characterization expertise, and Liberty modeling expertise.

Deep understanding of different Liberty formats: NLDM, CCS, ECSM, LVF, EM, Aging etc.

Firsthand experience performing characterizations with an industry-standard solution.

Firsthand experience with industry-standard circuit simulators.

Good understanding of integrated circuit operation and CMOS fundamentals.

Fair understanding of process variation, and statistical characterization, with familiarity at advanced process nodes (5nm, 3nm etc.)

Coherent problem-solving skills to debug customer problems and propose solutions.

Automation skills using Tcl, Python, and shell scripting.

Experience with Memory or Macro or Mixed-Signal characterization is a plus.

Experience with Cadence Liberate is a plus.

Experience with Cadence Spectre is a plus.

Qualifications

BE/BTech/ME/MS/MTech or equivalent