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Lead IC Verification AE

Job in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95199, USA
Listing for: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-02
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Electronics Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 102900 - 191100 USD Yearly USD 102900.00 191100.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Overview

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Join our elite application engineering team for verification to work closely with the best AEs, PEs and R&D in EDA at a company listed in Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as one of the 2021 World s Best Workplaces for the sixth time!

As an integral member of the North America Verification Field Applications Engineering (AE) Team, you will work directly with industry leading semiconductor and system companies to deploy Cadence’s market leading emulation and FPGA prototyping platforms, Palladium and Protium. In this customer facing role you will provide the front-line technical support in the pre and post-sales process and will work with account team to come up with innovative solutions to address our customers’ most challenging problems in emulation and prototyping.

In this role, you will develop customer specific emulation and prototyping requirements, including advanced acceleration component development, methodology support, and operation and maintenance of Cadence’s emulation and prototyping tools and services. You will support technical evaluations and benchmark development for Cadence’s market leading tools such as Palladium acceleration and emulation platform and Protium prototyping platform. You will create and conduct technical presentations and product demonstrations for customers.

We are looking for a candidate who can establish technical credibility with customers, support advanced verification flows, and contribute to design wins through collaboration with R&D and marketing.

Responsibilities
  • Establish technical credibility and rapport with the customer and become the go-to expert for all of their technical inquiries and support.
  • Provide in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R&D to help support advanced verification flows to secure design wins.
  • Champion the customer needs and work closely with R&D and marketing to develop competitive and creative technical solutions.
  • Understand the competitive landscape and continuously work on differentiating Cadence’s solutions.
  • Write technical product literature such as application notes and technical articles.
  • Review new product proposals and device specifications.
  • Assume technical leadership roles in small teams as needed.
Requirements
  • Minimum 4+ years industry experience.
  • Experience in HW acceleration, in-circuit emulation or FPGA prototyping.
  • BS, MS, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • Strong RTL and Testbench debug skills.
  • Experience in synthesizable coding style.
  • Experience in writing scripts (Perl, Python or TCL).
  • Strong software, HDL design and verification skills.
  • Experience with System Verilog, VHDL, Verilog, C/C++/System

    C.
  • Ability to quickly analyze verification environments and design complexity.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong teamwork skills.
  • Ability to interact effectively with both external customers and R&D teams.
Preferred
  • Experience with multiple clock domains and asynchronous interfaces.
  • Knowledge of the FPGA development process & tool flow from RTL to bitstream for Xilinx and/or Altera products.
  • Hands on experience with lab bring up, debug, chipscope and instrument usage.
  • Experience with C/C++/System

    C.
  • Knowledge of fundamental SoC Architecture knowledge.
  • Understanding of embedded software development and HW/SW co-design and co-verification.
  • Knowledge of protocols like JTAG, UART, PCIe, AMBA, DDR.
  • Knowledge of design fundamentals such as architecture, micro-architecture, HDLs and Synthesis and timing.

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The annual salary range for California is $102,900 to $191,100. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.

Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a…

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