Principal Software Engineer

de designing, developing, troubleshooting, debugging and supporting the Genus software product.

Job Responsibilities:

The role's day to day responsibilities cover:

Design, implementation and validation of new innovative synthesis optimization algorithms to improve the timing, area, and power design metrics. Validation and analysis of these on benchmark designs to measure achieved improvements.

R&D support of application and product engineers for customer problems and requests. This consists of problem analysis, debugging and fixing, or the development of new features and enhancements to improve synthesis results with respect to timing, area and power.

This job will suit applicants looking to continue their software engineering career in an intellectually stimulating and challenging problem domain. There is a significant research element to the work that Cadence does that is truly innovative; we don't know what the answers are when we start out!

Mentoring and support will be provided to the successful candidate to both enable contribution to the large EDA problem domain and to develop their programming skills into professional software engineering skills.

Job Qualifications:

BE/BTech/ME/MTech- Computer Science or others

Experience: 7-12 Yrs

Required Skills

The successful candidate will possess the following combination of education and experience:

Proficient in C/C++

Excellent programming and software engineering skills

Experience with UNIX and/or LINUX platforms is preferred

RTL knowledge - System Verilog, VHDL is preferred

Strong knowledge of Tcl is preferred

Experience in language compiler

Prior experience with large software development projects is highly recommended

Prior experience with timing analysis software development projects is highly recommended

Data structure and algorithmic skills
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