Senior Architect Product Engineering

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Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. Cadence customers are the world's most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

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• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
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• You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other-every day.

Job Summary

Product Engineering Sr. Architect position available in the Emulation/Prototyping PE team for a world class emulation engineer as part of the team responsible for the successful field readiness of our Hardware System Verification products. You'll enjoy the opportunities and challenges of becoming a true expert in multiple verification use models within the Palladium and Protium product line.

Job Responsibilities

This will include developing and improving functional requirements based on working with our field teams and customers, developing and maintaining feature based training as new products are released, and delivering critical knowledge and guidance to key customers and field teams in the expert use of a best in class verification platform. You will be called upon to drive to success selected critical customer engagements leveraging a cross functional team of product, engagement and application engineers. You'll also drive to deliver critical customer-like examples to test areas within your domain expertise for the features of each major release, including new Emulation/Prototyping platforms. Challenges will include developing in-depth technical expertise in the use of our current and next generation system, bringing internal designs to functionality on the next generation system, and debug of the overall integrated platform. You will be part of the team that delivers Early Adopter and Beta programs to ensure first wave customer success of our new Emulation/Prototyping platforms. You will become a trusted advocate within R&D for key product feature definition and introduction, and be a leveraged asset to the field and marketing teams in showing how our products measure up in key performance areas. You will also become a respected and trusted source of detailed domain based knowledge making our field teams and customers successful with the use of a complex and world class verification platform.

Experience and Technical Skills required

• Bachelors in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with a minimum of 15 years of related experience, or Masters with a minimum of 12 years of related experience, or PhD with a minimum of 10 years of related experience Strong knowledge of simulation and verification tools, with proven expertise in emulation and prototyping platforms.
• Strong knowledge of how to debug designs, within emulation and prototyping systems.
• Strong knowledge and direct experience in simulation acceleration methodologies. Virtual acceleration technology experience and knowledge a plus.
• Proven expertise in supporting customers (in HW / FW and SW based systems)
• Experience in advocating for customer features, including emerging verification methodologies, in an already proven SW/HW platform, taking care in understanding the effects of new features or defaults on existing user environments
• Strong interpersonal relationship building across different groups within and external to the Business Units, with a strong focus on customer product usage advocacy.
• Ability to distil low level technical information and create summary material for reporting to executive staff
• Training collateral development, including white papers and presentations for field teams and early adaptors
• Ability to travel occasionally for up to two weeks at a time for internal training or customer project support
• Experience in digital design (RTL) using Verilog and synthesis tools to be able to understand customer design complexities and the effects on a verification platform, as well as ability to create small synthesizable testcases
• Technical expertise in functional verification using High Level Verification languages such as UVM (SystemVerilog) or C/C++ . Capability with scripting in languages like Perl or TCL and shell scripting

Qualifications

BS-EE/CE (MS-EE/CE preferred)

Behavioral skills required

• Must possess strong written, verbal and presentation skills
• Ability to establish a close working relationship with both customer peers and management
• Explore what's possible to get the job done, including creative use of unconventional solutions
• Work effectively across functions and geographies
• Push to raise the bar while always operating with integrity

The annual salary range for California is $196,000 to $364,000. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.

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