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Cadence Design Systems

Principal Firmware Engineer

AustinPosted Aug 9, 2026

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Job Description

Be part of the Cadence DDR PHY IP Front End Design team responsible for -

• Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers

• Developing firmware in C typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers.

• Responsible for collaborating with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them.

• Responsible for collaborating with the verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan.

• Develop and Debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C +Verilog simulations)

• Develop and Debug on Silicon bring-up boards.

Required Skills:

• Good Knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC spec, knowledge of different DIMM configurations and specifications.

• Relevant experience in developing bare-metal firmware for High-speed SerDes or Memory interface Physical Layer blocks.

• Good Knowledge of C programming language for embedded software development and use of relevant IDE.

• Comfortable debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystem.

• Good knowledge of Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting

• Good experience on Verification EDA Tools like simulators and waveform viewers

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