Sr Principal Design Engineer
Jul 31, 2026 Shanghai, China
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Job Description
Responsibilities:
Requirements:
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Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Working in Cadence Flagship Emulation and Prototyping product line;
- Responsible for designing, developing, modifying and productizing protocol products like PCIe, advanced Ethernet and many more which are crucial to modern IC design and verification.
- Perform as individual contributor on protocol projects involving logic RTL design, UVM based verification, board design/debug and documentation etc.
- Work on complex problems related to protocol or system integration level issues, electrical or timing closure issues, RTL design or verification methodologies.
Requirements:
- The position requires MSEE or equivalent, with experience in logic design and debug.
- Must have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- RTL design experience using Verilog is required along with experience in using RTL verification tools and flows.
- Experience in FPGA design for Xilinx products is strongly recommended.
- UVM verification experience is desired.
- Experience with scripting languages like Perl, TCL C-shell is desired.
We're doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can't.
Additional Information
- Posted: Jul 31, 2026