Sr IC DV Emulation/Prototyping AE

Cadence Systems•Austin, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

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 2025 World's Best Workplaces™ for the sixth time! 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 the front line technical support in the pre and post-sales process and will work with team members to come up with innovative solutions to address our customers’ most challenging problems in emulation and prototyping. As part of the team, 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.

Requirements

Minimum: Lab or internship experience leveraging hands on experience with FPGA prototyping including compilation, debug and performance optimization on FPGA prototyping platforms (Protium or HAPS is a plus)
Experience with hardware accelerators and emulators is a plus
Lab or internship experience with bring up, debug, chipscope and instrument usage
Education or experience in Verilog and Systemverilog
Knowledge of design fundamentals such as architecture, micro-architecture, HDLs and Synthesis and timing
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

Protium or HAPS is a plus

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