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Senior Principal Hardware Design Engineer - Palladium and Protium

Job in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95199, USA
Listing for: Cadence
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-25
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 154000 - 286000 USD Yearly USD 154000.00 286000.00 YEAR
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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Cadence is the leader in hardware emulation-acceleration technologies and products. Looking for a hands-on Principal HW Design Engineer who wants to expand their scope, and grow their career. This position is located in our San Jose headquarter office, reports to the Sr Engineering Group Director of R&D, and works in a growing talented organization.

Our emulation-acceleration system platform is the most advanced industry-leading configurable scalable system, generation after generation, used in labs and datacenters. This position requires to do board design, schematic entry, work with layout engineers to do PCB layout, signal integrity, bring-up and sustain the current hardware system platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the design, bring-up and sustain of hardware system platform.

• Continuously develop and apply technical domain expertise in Hardware Engineering. Maintain a strong, high level of competence in Electrical and/or Computer engineering to promote the incorporation of relevant technology into products and/or processes; and provide leadership and guidance to junior technical staff members.

• Establish and maintain Engineering Hardware standards, procedures, performance levels and documentation requirements. Propose and lead process improvement initiatives to drive breakthrough productivity and quality. Lead design reviews.

• Strong technical domain expertise in Electrical Engineering principles, concepts, and methods, and global standards compliance in order to work through technical issues of design integrity, manufacturability, and quality issues mitigation.
Qualifications

• BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or relate with a minimum of 10 years of experience OR MS with a minimum of 7 years of experience OR PhD with a minimum of 5 years of experience

• Demonstrated leader in guiding junior HW engineers.

• Proven success in taking at least one system product from concept to production.

• Experience in high speed interface design

• Experience with schematic capture software (CONCEPT / ALLEGRO).

• Good communication especially in creation of plans and reports.

• Familiarity with volume manufacturing methods and processes is a plus.

• Ability to lead and contribute to cross-functional teams, demonstrate good interpersonal skills, be able to operate independently and multiplex your time between many diverse tasks.

• Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering.
The annual salary range for California is $154,000 to $286,000. 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 variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.

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