Principal Product Validation Engineer

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

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.

The Cadence Advantage

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
• Cadence’s employee-friendly policies focus on the physical and mental well-being of employees, career development, providing opportunities for learning, and celebrating success in recognition of specific needs of the employees.
• The unique “One Cadence – One Team” culture promotes collaboration within and across teams to ensure customer success
• Multiple avenues of learning and development available for employees to explore as per their specific requirement and interests
• You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other—every day.

Job Responsibilities & Technical Expertise require:

• Focus on quality of physical validation tool Pegasus by analyzing on existing functionality/regressions for customer deliverables and report failures in bug tracking system.
• Maintain regression tests with regular test cycles and integrate customer test cases as part of regression suites.
• Working closely with PE and R&D to develop test plan of new features and methodology for testing coverage improvement.

Requirements:

• Have three or more years of experience in VLSI back-end domain.
• Be expert in layout and physical verification concepts (DRC/FILL/LVS/PERC)
• Have solid working experience with UNIX and skilled in shell/perl/tcl/python scripting language.
• Good communication, strong solving skill and working as a team player.
• Strong knowledge of Cadence Virtuoso is a big plus.

Education and Experience requirements:

• BS/MS degree with EE/CS background or Bachelor with 7+ developing and supporting physical verification activities.

Behavioral skills required:

• Must possess strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrate teamwork and collaboration skills.
• Ability to establish a close working relationship with both customer peers and management.
• Explore what’s possible to get the job done, including creative use of unconventional solutions
• Work effectively across functions and geographies
• Push to raise the bar while always operating with integrity

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