This position presents an exciting opportunity within Cadence’s Digital and Signoff Group (DSG) for a Product Engineer. In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate closely with R&D, Application Engineering & product marketing teams to help drive the development of advanced chip design software tools. Your responsibilities will include:
- Provide place-and-route expertise to both Cadence customers and internal development teams
- PPA benchmarking on customer and foundry test cases
- Evaluate impact of new features on PPA
- Be a liaison for new features between customer/foundry and R&D development teams
- Develop point solutions with scripting
- Data mining and analysis to uncover PPA limiting issues and identify optimization opportunities
Minimum Qualifications:
- A Bachelor or Master’s degree in EE/CS or equivalent major (Masters level preferred)
- A minimum of 10 years of hands on experience with any industry standard place-and-route tools (7 years with Master Degree)
- A good understanding of the RTL-GDSII flow
- A good understanding of the PDK and DK collaterals
- Firm understanding of Timing and power analysis
- Good scripting skills
- Must be legally eligible to work in the US
Skills Required
- Bachelor or Master's degree in EE/CS or equivalent major
- Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience with industry standard place-and-route tools
- Understanding of RTL-GDSII flow
- Understanding of PDK and DK collaterals
- Firm understanding of Timing and power analysis
- Good scripting skills
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