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Job Title: Digital Electronics Principal Verification Engineer
Location: Edinburgh
Reports to: Design Engineering Group Director
Job Overview:
The Cadence Silicon Solutions Group (SSG) develop leading edge Intellectual Property (IP) for a variety of High-Tech Markets. The Cadence IP solutions allow our Customers to tackle IP-to-SoC development in a system context, enabling them to focus on product differentiation and to reduce time to volume.
The Cadence SSG Vision is to deliver industry leading IP and Chiplet solutions to enable our customers to be successful across these fast-moving application spaces.
The Digital Principal Verification Engineer will be based in Edinburgh, Scotland as part of an experienced Chiplet Team with long established research and development sites in Europe and India.
Job Responsibilities:
- Development of Verification and Emulation Environments for complex Chiplet Designs
- Development of UVM-SV Scoreboards for self-checking regressions
- Development of Functional Coverage as part of Metric Driven Verification Environments
- Development of SystemVerilog Assertions for use in Formal and Simulation Environments
- Development of Emulation Environments based on Cadences Palladium Emulator Product
- Integration of Cadence Verification IP (VIP) for Simulation Environments
- Integration of Accelerated VIP (AVIP) for Emulation Environments
- Definition and Management of Verification Plans (vPlans) using Cadence vManager tools
- Creation and Management of Automated Regression Environments, e.g. Jenkins, GIT
- Participation in Technical Review Meetings and Checklist Reviews as part of ISO-9001
- Close Collaboration with Architects and Design Engineers to debug complex test scenarios
Job Qualifications:
- Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics, or a related discipline
- 10+ years’ experience in microelectronics/EDA industry
- Experience of Verilog RTL Design essential
- Experience of Metric Driven Verification (MDV) essential
- Experience of Formal Verification Methodologies essential
- Excellent oral and written English essential
- Self-motivated with excellent planning, interpersonal, and communication skills
Additional Skills/Preferences:
- Experience of Front-end design tools covering LINT, Synthesis, CDC Analysis preferred
- Experience of Quality processes, such as ISO-9001 & ISO-26262 preferred
Additional Information:
Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.Skills Required
- Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics, or a related discipline
- 10+ years of experience in the microelectronics or EDA industry
- Experience with Verilog RTL design
- Experience with Metric Driven Verification
- Experience with formal verification methodologies
- Excellent oral and written English
- Self-motivated with excellent planning, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Experience with front-end design tools including LINT, synthesis, and CDC analysis
- Experience with quality processes such as ISO 9001 and ISO 26262
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Equity Value & Accessibility — A discounted ESPP with a lookback feature and equity included in total compensation make ownership broadly accessible and potentially meaningful. Structured compensation at an industry leader adds predictability to equity participation.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are described as solid, with mental‑health/EAP and fertility support enhancing the offering. The breadth across core care and family‑building needs strengthens the healthcare package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Global Recharge Days, volunteer time off, and companywide breaks indicate a comprehensive time‑off framework. In addition, many salaried roles are described as having flexible or generous PTO policies.
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Cadence enables electronic systems and semiconductor companies to create the innovative end products that are transforming the way people live, work and play. Cadence® software, hardware and IP are used by customers to deliver products to market faster. The company's Intelligent System Design strategy helps customers develop differentiated products—from chips to boards to intelligent systems—in mobile, consumer, cloud, data center, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments. Cadence is listed as one of Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For.
