Design Verification Applications Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

As an integral member of the North American Field Applications Engineering (AE) Team, you will work directly with industry leading semiconductor and system companies to deploy Cadence’s market leading Systems and Verification toolset. In this customer facing role you will provide the front line technical support in the Pre and Post-Sales process and will work with the account team to come up with innovate solutions to address our customers’ most challenging problems. Local customer requires that the applicant be eligible for US Gov secret clearance, upon starting in the position Cadence will work with applicant and customer to help secure secret clearance.

Key responsibilities in this position are to:

• Establish technical credibility and rapport with the customer and become the go-to expert for all of their technical inquiries and support
• Provide in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R&D to help support advanced acceleration/emulation flows to secure design wins
• Champion the customer needs and work with R&D and Marketing to develop competitive and creative technical solutions.
• Write technical product literature such as application notes and technical articles.

The major focus of this role will be on Verification Simulation, Debug, and Metrics tracking for complex ASIC And FPGA systems designs and will require strong skills in the following areas:

• RTL coding with Verilog or VHDL
• Verification skills such as UVM testbench architecture, coverage, assertions and debug
• Fundamental SoC Architecture knowledge
• Knowledge of UNIX , C/C++, scripting programming languages such as Perl, TCL
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
• Self-motivated and strong teamwork skills

Education: MS, or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or 2+ years experience

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