Sr Application Engineer
About The Position
Join Cadence's elite Application Engineering team for verification, working closely with AEs, PEs, and R&D in EDA. As an integral member of the North America 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 front-line technical support in the pre and post-sales process and collaborate with team members to develop innovative solutions for customers’ most challenging problems in emulation and prototyping. 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. Additionally, 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, and create and conduct technical presentations and product demonstrations for customers.
Requirements
- Minimum: M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Good understanding and knowledge of Object Oriented Programming and experience in one such programming language such as C++, Java, Python or Systemverilog
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix platforms and scripting languages such as Perl, TCL, Python
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- Self-motivated and strong teamwork skills
- Strong problem solving skills
Nice To Haves
- Lab or internship experience leveraging hands on experience with lab bring up, debug, chipscope and instrument usage
- FPGA prototyping knowledge including compilation, debug and performance optimization on FPGA prototyping platforms
- Experience with hardware accelerators and emulators
- Education or experience in Verilog Systemverilog
- Knowledge of design fundamentals such as architecture, micro-architecture, HDLs and Synthesis and timing
Responsibilities
- Establish technical credibility and rapport with the customer
- Work closely with an experienced team to become the go-to expert for technical inquiries and support for emulation and prototyping
- Become part of a team that provides in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R&D to help support advanced acceleration/emulation/prototyping flows to secure design wins
- Champion the customer needs and work with R&D and marketing to develop competitive and creative technical solutions
- Learn the competitive landscape and continuously work on differentiating Cadence’s solutions
- Write technical product literature such as application notes and technical articles
Benefits
- paid vacation
- paid holidays
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- employee stock purchase plan
- a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options
- incentive compensation: bonus, equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
