Principal Product Engineer

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• This opportunity is for a Principal Product Engineer in the Digital and Signoff Group (DSG) at Cadence. The Cadence Digital and Signoff Group will offer you a dynamic environment in which you will work with innovative R&D and Customer Engagement teams to influence the development of software tools for advanced chip design platforms.
• As a Principal Product Engineer for Liberate, you will engineer innovative and quality characterization solutions/methods for foundational IPs, working closely with R&D and fellow engineers.
• You will work on customer activities, run competitive benchmarks, develop flows and solutions to proliferate our technologies at customers.
• You will also work very closely with customers to drive product adoptions and campaigns, as well as drive partnership and collaborative projects with customers.

Experience and Technical Skills Required

• Foundational IP characterization expertise, and Liberty modeling expertise.
• Deep understanding of different Liberty formats: NLDM, CCS, ECSM, LVF, EM, Aging etc.
• Firsthand experience performing characterizations with an industry-standard solution.
• Firsthand experience with industry-standard circuit simulators.
• Good understanding of integrated circuit operation and CMOS fundamentals.
• Fair understanding of process variation, and statistical characterization, with familiarity at advanced process nodes (5nm, 3nm etc.)
• Coherent problem-solving skills to debug customer problems and propose solutions.
• Automation skills using Tcl, Python, and shell scripting.
• Experience with Memory or Macro or Mixed-Signal characterization is a plus.
• Experience with Cadence Liberate is a plus.
• Experience with Cadence Spectre is a plus.

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MS/MTech or equivalent

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