Lead design engineer

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JOB Summary:
We have an immediate opening in the Electrical Validation team at Cadence Design Systems Bangalore, for the post of "Lead Design Engineer". 

The responsibility primarily entails performing pre and post silicon Physical Layer Electrical Validation on Cadence's High Speed SERDES IP.
Activities include 
• Designing the hardware and software infrastructure required to enable validation (Test PCBs, Controlling FPGA platforms, Labview/Python automation) 
• Implementing test suites for rigorously testing the compliance of the IP to Physical Layer Electrical specifications 
• Debugging Silicon issues and generating high quality test reports for customers 

What we are looking for in potential candidates is listed below.

Minimum Qualifications:
BE/BTECH/ME/MTECH Equivalent Degree
• 3-4 years (with Btech) or 1-2 years (with Mtech) of experience in Post-Silicon Physical Layer Electrical Validation 
• Physical Layer electrical validation experience on AT LEAST ONE High speed SERDES protocol like PCIe, USB, DP, Ethernet, SRIO, JESD204, DDRIO 
• Hands on Experience in using lab equipment such as Oscilloscopes, Network Analyzers, Bit Error Rate Testers (BERT) 

Preferred Qualifications:
• Candidates are expected to be passionate about analog and digital electronic circuit design aspects as well as signal processing related aspects
• 1-2 years of experience in FPGA Design, PCB schematic and layout design & Prototyping is a plus 
• Pre-Silicon IP/SoC Physical Layer Electrical Validation experience related to board bring-up & Debug
• Familiarity with RTL coding for FPGA, Labview, Python, C/C++, TCL 

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