Sr Principal Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Join Cadence's VEM team, a key R&D group advancing electromagnetic (EM), thermal, and multi-physics technologies within the Virtuoso platform. This team builds the EM and thermal modeling capabilities that power today's most advanced semiconductor designs, including 2.5D/3D-IC and heterogeneous integration flows.

In this role, you'll work on the Virtuoso Heterogeneous Integration toolset, helping develop next-generation solutions for EM analysis, thermal analysis, RC extraction and multi-fabric modeling across IC, package, and system domains.

This is a great opportunity for a motivated Software Engineer to contribute to cutting-edge multi-technology design, including cross-fabric implementation, die stacking, and multi-physics analysis-all within a supportive, innovative, and highly collaborative environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build, troubleshoot, and debug state-of-the-art EDA software features and services.

• Scale performance across runtime, memory footprint, and CPU/GPU utilization to support next-generation, large-scale designs.

• Analyze advanced layout cross-sections and translate insights into robust algorithms and product features.

• Deliver innovative, customer-centric solutions by leveraging and extending existing tool capabilities.

• Drive process excellence: define improvements, manage schedules and dependencies, and own deliverables end-to-end.

• Apply ML/AI techniques to automate workflows and improve engineering productivity and quality.

• Collaborate globally with R&D, Product Engineering (PE), and Application Engineering (AE); mentor junior engineers and foster best practices.

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MS/MTech in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronics

Experience and Technical Skills required

• 15+ years of software development experience in electronic circuits/EDA/layouts.

• Strong programming skills (C++, SKILL, AI programming platform)

• Good understanding of an electronic circuit/parasitic/EM/thermal analysis will be a plus.

Preferred Attributes

• Recognized as a technical expert with a track record of delivering innovative solutions.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

• Ability to influence technical direction and drive strategic initiatives.

Be proud and passionate about the work you do. Together, our One Cadence -- One Team culture drives our success.

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