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Job Title: Lead Product Engineer, Marine Applications
Location: Sophia Antipolis, France | Thessaloniki, Greece | Brussels, Belgium
Reports to: Product Engineering Director
Job Overview:
As a Product Engineer specialising in marine applications, you will play a key role in advancing Cadence's marine business and strengthening our simulation solutions for naval architects and marine engineers. You will help drive innovation, product quality, and user-focused workflows that support a global community of marine simulation users.
Job Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
- Test and validate new marine capabilities to ensure quality, robustness, and readiness for release.
- Document new features, validation results, best practices, and user workflows.
- Develop workflows for emerging marine applications.
- Create and enhance scripts and automation tools that improve user productivity.
- Demonstrate product capabilities and help accelerate adoption of marine simulation solutions.
- Partner with Research & Development (R&D), application engineering, and other technical teams.
- Engage with users to understand their needs and help translate insights into product improvements.
Job Qualifications:
We recognise that talent can be developed through a variety of educational and professional pathways. If your experience differs from the qualifications listed below, we encourage you to apply if you believe you can succeed in the role.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Marine Science, Naval Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Experience in product engineering, application engineering, or a related technical role, preferably within marine or simulation-focused environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate complex engineering workflows and recommend practical improvements.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear technical documentation, guidelines, and reports.
- Experience developing scripts and workflow automation solutions, preferably using Python.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including R&D, application engineering, product management, and customers.
Additional Skills/Preferences:
Experience in one or more of the following areas would be beneficial:
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
- Marine simulation workflows.
- AI-assisted coding tools.
- Marine applications such as resistance, seakeeping, propulsion, manoeuvring, and external aerodynamics.
- Automation and optimisation of simulation processes.
Additional Information:
This role is part of an international Product Engineering organisation focused on delivering high-quality simulation solutions for marine applications. You will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence.
Check what we can offer you:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday per year
- Private Medical and Dental plans, Income Protection and Life Insurance
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- Cycle to work scheme and gym subsidy
- 5 days paid time to volunteer to give back to our communities
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- The opportunity to work for a Great Place to Work© & Fortune 100 organization
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.
Travel: Occasional travel may be required for customer engagements, workshops, conferences, or team collaboration.
We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Marine Science, Naval Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Experience in product engineering, application engineering, or related technical role (preferably within marine or simulation environments)
- Experience developing scripts and workflow automation solutions
- Experience using Python (preferred)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (R&D, application engineering, product management, customers)
- Experience with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Experience with marine simulation workflows and marine-specific applications (resistance, seakeeping, propulsion, manoeuvring)
- Experience with automation and optimisation of simulation processes
- Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools
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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.
