Lead Application Engineer

to:** Application Engineering Director

Job Overview:

Join the front line of innovation, helping world-class design teams harness Cadence's most advanced digital implementation and AI-enhanced verification and implementation solutions. This role transforms complex design challenges into success stories by driving synthesis, low-power methodologies, and static verification flows to peak performance. You'll blend technical mastery with customer leadership, partnering with R&D to shape next-generation methodologies and ensure our tools deliver industry-leading results.

Job Responsibilities:

• Deliver expert technical guidance to customers across synthesis, low-power verification, and logical equivalence checking.

• Enable customers to maximize the value of Cadence technologies by aligning tool capabilities with project goals, design requirements, and schedules.

• Present technical content through compelling presentations, hands-on training sessions, and product demonstrations that accelerate customer proficiency.

• Lead technical evaluations and benchmarks to successful completion while clearly demonstrating tool advantages and methodology strengths.

• Collaborate closely with R&D to refine tools, influence feature development, and ensure solutions meet evolving customer requirements.

• Drive adoption and expansion of Cadence tools and methodologies within customer design teams.

• Enhance design flows by developing and modifying automation using TCL and other programming skills to improve accuracy, efficiency, and quality of results.

• Document and standardize best practices and lessons learned from customer engagements to increase efficiency and raise the likelihood of success in future projects.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics, or a related technical field.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in digital design implementation within the semiconductor industry.

• Proficiency in UNIX/Linux environments with strong scripting skills in C-shell, TCL/Tk, and Python.

• Deep understanding of digital design fundamentals, semiconductor principles, and low-power architecture methodologies.

• Advanced expertise in digital synthesis, preferably using Cadence Genus

• Knowledge of a hardware description language, such as SystemVerilog or VHDL

• Excellent communication skills, with fluency in English and the ability to convey complex concepts clearly.

• Strong customer-facing presence, demonstrating effective problem-solving, technical leadership, and relationship-building abilities.

• Collaborative mindset, combining technical passion with an understanding of customer needs and business priorities.

• Plus experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Digital circuit design (RTL design)

  • Logic Equivalence Checking, preferably using Cadence Conformal

  • SDC creation and validation

  • UPF development and verification

  • CAD/EDA support for digital IC design flows, with emphasis on synthesis, LEC, and CLP verification

  • Static Timing Analysis (STA)

  • DFT insertion and related methodologies

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Experience with job scheduling systems

• Familiarity with version control systems used in collaborative design environments

• Ability to analyze and optimize design QoR (timing, area, power) across synthesis and low-power flows

• Proactive approach to expanding technical knowledge and capabilities

• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to drive tasks forward with minimal supervision

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in complex design or debug scenarios

• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks effectively, and manage multiple customer engagements simultaneously

• Demonstrated ownership mindset, taking initiative to identify issues, propose solutions, and follow through to resolution

• Adaptability in dynamic environments, with the capacity to learn new tools, flows, and methodologies quickly

Additional Information:

• Work in a collaborative, international team of highly skilled and passionate application engineers.

• Engage closely with key stakeholders, including customers, Product Engineering, Marketing, and R&D teams, to shape successful design outcomes.

• Focus primarily on Cadence's digital implementation and static verification technologies, including Genus, Innovus Implementation System, and the Conformal tool family.

• Access to world-class internal training programs for continuous technical development.

• Exposure to advanced semiconductor process nodes and next-generation digital design methodologies.

• Cross functional collaboration with global teams across multiple time zones.

Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Travel: Approximately 10% domestic travel may be required for customer visits, training, or technical workshops.
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