Application Engineer, Customer Engagement

Cadence•San Jose, CA

6d•$151,513 - $191,100•Hybrid

About The Position

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Cadence plays a critical role in creating the technologies that modern life depends on. We are a global electronic design automation company, providing software, hardware, and intellectual property to design advanced semiconductor chips that enable our customers create revolutionary products and experiences. Thanks to the outstanding caliber of the Cadence team and the empowering culture that we have cultivated for over 25 years, Cadence continues to be recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. Our shared passion for solving the world’s toughest technical challenges, our dedication to pushing the limits of the industry, and our drive to do meaningful work differentiates the people of Cadence. Cadence is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, basis of disability, or any other protected class.

Requirements

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
Minimum three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related engineering occupation.
Understanding of System Verilog Register-Transfer Level (RTL) design on the Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) scale and debugging techniques, including System Verilog Assertions
Formal functional verification concept and methods including model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, and property checking
Static verification like clock domain crossing, reset domain crossing, linting, and Static Timing Analysis (STA)
Jasper tool usage and feature development, deployment and understanding of SAT solvers
Hardware security and computer architecture
Sequential and combinational equivalence checking including Jasper SEC and LEC
Must be available to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States.

Responsibilities

Utilizing engineering background, provide pre-sales and/or post-sales technical customer support including implementation, training, and maintenance support for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and semiconductor intellectual property (IP).
Investigate and answer questions about Jasper tools, creating test cases to reproduce issues reported by the user, suggesting workarounds, filing issue tickets for Research & Development (R&D) action, describing enhancement requests, and managing users’ expectations.
Help customers address their verification challenges using Formal Verification.
Analyze and evaluate customer needs and make recommendations for solutions, and work with Sales to identify business opportunities.
Train customers on Jasper tools.
Understand user designs and whether they are suitable for formal verification, helping the user create a Formal Environment, and demonstrating how our tool can solve the customer issue.
Work with R&D, Product Engineers, and customers to develop new methodologies to address the customer needs.
Create and test new flows to improve Jasper tools.
Establish support and qualification processes for key customers, improving customer satisfaction, effectiveness of the team, and tool quality.
Mentor new hires, sharing experience and guiding them in the Application Engineer role.
Responsible for content creation (Rapid Adoption Kit, Videos, App Notes) about several Jasper tool apps.