Sr Principal Application Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on work with Cadence customers in the areas of Backend Digital Design Implementation and Signoff including Synthesis, Place and Route, Design Closure, and timing/power signoff, RTL to GDSII.
• Lead technical campaigns and strategies in the RTL to GDSII digital implementation space.
• Aggressively push Power, Performance, and Area (PPA).
• Deliver technical presentations and lead discussions internally and with customers.
• Work closely with R&D to enhance the tools and methodologies to meet and exceed customer’s requirements with high quality.
• Support execution on critical customer flagship product tape outs.
• Amend and augment the flow as needed using Tcl and/or other programming skills to meet objectives and improve results/flows.

Job Requirements

• Minimum MS degree Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical, Engineering, or related field, plus 12+ years industry experience.
• Strong knowledge in Digital Design Fundamentals, Semiconductor fundamentals, and Static Timing Analysis is required.
• Prior experience with IC digital implementation flows and backend EDA tools including Synthesis, Place and Route, IR Drop, backend design timing and power closure, RTL to GDSII.
• Experience in scripting in Perl/Tcl/Python to automate and implement process improvement is a must.
• Floor planning and power planning for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs with low power.
• Advanced clock tree synthesis techniques including SoC Clock Distribution, Clock Mesh, H-Tree.
• Multiple design closure including Timing, DRC, LVS, and EMIR preferred.
• Experience with advanced technology nodes including Sub 5nm and below.
• Develop, debug, and optimize various aspects of design flows for SoC’s to achieve best Power, Performance and Area (PPA).
• Strong hands-on experience of Floorplanning, Place and Route, Timing analysis and Sign-off, preferable with CDNS tools suite.
• Strong personal drive for continuous learning and expanding professional skillsets.
• Strong verbal, written, and customer communication skills.
• Prior experience with Cadence tools such as Genus, Innovus, Conformal, Tempus, Modus, and/or Voltus is highly desired.

Pay

The annual salary range for California is $143,500 to $266,500. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits.

Schedule

Not specified.

Benefits

• paid vacation and paid holidays
• 401(k) plan with employer match
• employee stock purchase plan
• a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options
• and more.