Lead Design Engineer
Cadence Design Systems
Lead Design Engineer
Cadence Design Systems
Develops EDA software, IP, verification tools
Primary Responsibilities:
- Contributor and senior technical engineer in the IP verification team, especially on high-performance Consumer PHYs including eUSB2v2, USB4-PHY, PCIe, eDP/DP, SATA, etc.
- Develop and maintain UVM-based verification environments: testbench architecture, agents/UVCs, sequences, scoreboards, register models (UVM RAL) and checkers, from block level to PHY top and controller+PHY subsystem level.
- Create verification plans (vPlan) from protocol specifications and design documents; define functional coverage models, assertions (SVA) and testing strategy including corner conditions and error injection; drive coverage closure and signoff quality metrics.
- Run and maintain regressions with simulation/regression platforms (Xcelium, vManager); triage failures, debug RTL/testbench issues with waveform tools (Verisium/SimVision), and track them to root cause and closure.
- Apply low-power verification (power islands, state retention, isolation), clock/reset domain crossing checks (CDC/RDC), X-propagation, gate-level simulation and formal techniques as required by the project.
- Integrate and configure commercial VIPs for serial protocols; verify firmware/hardware interaction and PHY bring-up/configuration flows together with firmware and design teams.
- Work with the design team on testability of features, support lab bring-up and pre/post-silicon debug for global customers.
- Partner closely with the Project Management Team to collaborate with various skill groups in Nanjing and multiple worldwide geographies to complete the IP deliverables with high quality; contribute to verification infrastructure, methodology and QA for customer releases.
Position Requirements:
- MS / BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related degree.
- 3+ years of relative industry working experience in digital/ASIC verification.
- Solid hands-on experience with SystemVerilog and UVM; good knowledge of best practices and flows in constrained-random verification, functional coverage and assertion-based verification within an end-to-end methodology.
- Knowledge of one or more industry serial standards, such as USB, DP, PCIe, Ethernet, etc., and their link training / power management / protocol layering.
- Experience with verification planning and coverage-driven signoff.
- Understanding basics of Analog Mixed-Signal verification, and a system view of physical interface IPs and their typical applications.
- One Team mentality with a passion to innovate and a can-do attitude.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills in both English and Mandarin.
- Self-starter and highly motivated.
Qualifications as Plus
- Direct verification experience of high-speed serial interface link IPs (PHY/PCS/controller) in advanced technology nodes.
- Experience with Cadence verification tool suite: Xcelium, vManager, Verisium, JasperGold (formal/CDC), Palladium emulation.
- Experience with low-power verification (UPF/CPF), gate-level simulation, and mixed-signal co-simulation.
- Scripting and automation skills: Python, Perl, Tcl, Makefile/regression infrastructure; interest in AI-assisted verification
- Experience controller+PHY subsystem-level verification.
Develops EDA software, IP, verification tools
Cadence Design Systems supplies software, hardware, and IP for electronic design automation (EDA) to help customers create advanced semiconductor chips and electronic systems. Its tools handle system design, verification, digital and analog IC design, and custom flows, while IP such as Tensilica processors and DSP cores can be licensed for integration into customer products. The offerings are delivered as software licenses with maintenance and support, plus IP licensing and occasional hardware-accelerated options. The company differentiates itself with a broad, end-to-end EDA portfolio and close collaboration with industry leaders to streamline the path from concept to silicon, aiming to help customers bring sophisticated silicon and electronics to market faster with lower risk and higher productivity.
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