Software Engineer In Test - Innovus Clock Tree Synthesis Group
Cadence Design Systems is looking for a highly motivated Integration Test Engineer to work with the Digital Design and Signoff Group engineering team. You will be joining a small team responsible for innovating, designing, and developing key technology used within the Innovus™ product. The team is based in Cambridge, UK working within a global team.
Background
Cadence’s (www.cadence.com) products are used to design and build the entire electronics design chain, from chip design to chip packaging to boards and to system. Our technology enables electronic systems and semiconductor companies to create innovative products that transform the way people live, work, and play. Our products are used in mobile, consumer, cloud datacenter, automotive, aerospace, IoT, industrial and other market segments.
Cadence’s success is built upon its employee’s technical excellence within a supportive culture; voted as one of the Fortune 100 best companies to work every year for the last five years.
Job Role
The role’s day to day responsibilities cover:
- Running (and checking) several test suites prior to promotion of R&D new code into the mainline code repository
- Working with R&D engineers to investigate and fix test failures due to new code
- Working with R&D engineers to curate R&D created unit tests
- Working with Product Validation engineers to investigate, disable and/or fix fragile tests
- Periodically building coverage build variant and publishing code coverage information
- Periodically making ASAN build variants and reporting any issues found
- Working to develop automation to automate these tasks
- Monitoring and maintenance of existing automation scripts
The role is a 25% FTE role, working 10 hours a week. It would be expected that this would constitute approximately 2 hours a day or less, ideally with flexibility when urgent issues arise. The successful applicant would be based in the Cambridge office. Once up to speed, the applicant would be expected to attend 2 meetings per week (one 1-1 with manager and 1 engineering team meeting) in person at the Cambridge office, but otherwise the role can be performed remotely.
Required Skills
- Some experience of testing or deploying complex software systems
- Familiarity with basic Linux command line tools
- Ability and desire to work collaboratively within a global team
Desirable Skills
- Perforce version control
- C/C++/Tcl/Python experience
- Familiarity with basic Linux command line tools
Personality
Successful candidates will be:
- Inquisitive
- Interested in technical detail
- Excited by innovation
- Enthusiastic working in a small team environment
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What We Do
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.
