Description / Summary
Join our elite North America hardware application engineering team, and work closely with the best AEs, PEs and R&D in EDA industry. Join a top class company that has been listed in Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as one of the World's Best Workplaces™ for the eleven years in a row!
You will report directly into the North America Verification Field Applications Engineering (FAE) Team, and be co-located in India alongside our R&D teams. You will be a leading product expert on advanced FPGA based prototyping focusing on Cadence’s Protium X3 system . Your focus will be to work on key campaigns in North America, driving differentiated HW emulation solutions at our industry leading semiconductor and system companies and you will form a key bridge between our customers, North America AEs and R&D teams.
Key Responsibilities
Assume technical leadership for Protium compiler flow and become the go-to expert for the rest of the North America field AE team .
Provide in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R&D to help support advanced Protium based flows to secure design wins .
Champion the customer needs and work closely with R&D in India to develop competitive and creative technical solutions.
Strong experience in FPGA based emulation or prototyping.
Experience in portioning for Xilinx FPGA’s and analyze bottlenecks to performance.
Knowledge of interface bring up on FPGA platforms like PCIe and DDR
Experience with SystemVerilog, VHDL, Verilog, C/C++/SystemC
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively bridge communication channels between external customers, NA FAE team and internal R&D teams.
Strong teamwork skills
12+ years industry experience
Skills Required
- Strong experience in FPGA based emulation or prototyping
- Experience in portioning for Xilinx FPGA's
- Knowledge of interface bring up on FPGA platforms like PCIe and DDR
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- 12+ years industry experience
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