Sr. Principal Product Engineer, RTL-GDSII

Product Engineer

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

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