Principal Application Engineer, Customer Engagement
About The Position
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. 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). Perform Static Timing Analysis (STA), glitch, noise analysis, extraction using Cadence Signoff tools. Work efficiently with Research & Development (R&D) and customer to enable various timing analysis and ECO flows. Perform timing correlation, tool feature benchmarking, constraints validation, spice analysis on various tech nodes and customer designs. Work on in-design timing ECO (Engineering Change Order) optimizations solutions. Present to customers the technical capabilities of Cadence Digital Implementation and Signoff tools and flows (Synthesis, Place and Route, Timing/Physical/Power). Recognize opportunities for products at existing customers or potential customers, and work with account team to define and execute technical campaigns. Support adoption and proliferation at existing customers (on/offsite) to help drive increasing business for our digital implementation tools. Deliver technical trainings and seminars within Cadence and customer sites. May telecommute. Must be available to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or related field
- Minimum nine (9) years of experience in the job offered or in a related engineering occupation
- Automate flows using scripting languages including Perl, Tcl, and Python
- Floorplanning, powerplanning, placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS) and routing and place and route tool knowledge
- Physical verification including DRC/LVS, antenna, EM/IR analysis and signal integrity analysis
- Static Timing Analysis (STA)
- Synthesis for improving results
- ECO flows and methodologies
- Engineering support for EDA tools like IC Compiler II and Fusion Compiler, debug physical design implementation failures, resolve errors, identify tool bugs, and analyze convergence issues
- Evaluation and deployment of new EDA tools and features
- Must be available to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States.
Responsibilities
- 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).
- Perform Static Timing Analysis (STA), glitch, noise analysis, extraction using Cadence Signoff tools.
- Work efficiently with Research & Development (R&D) and customer to enable various timing analysis and ECO flows.
- Perform timing correlation, tool feature benchmarking, constraints validation, spice analysis on various tech nodes and customer designs.
- Work on in-design timing ECO (Engineering Change Order) optimizations solutions.
- Present to customers the technical capabilities of Cadence Digital Implementation and Signoff tools and flows (Synthesis, Place and Route, Timing/Physical/Power).
- Recognize opportunities for products at existing customers or potential customers, and work with account team to define and execute technical campaigns.
- Support adoption and proliferation at existing customers (on/offsite) to help drive increasing business for our digital implementation tools.
- Deliver technical trainings and seminars within Cadence and customer sites.
Benefits
- paid vacation and paid holidays
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- employee stock purchase plan
- a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
