Lead Software Engineer

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Job Description

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.  Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

The Cadence Advantage

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
• Cadence’s employee-friendly policies focus on the physical and mental well-being of employees, career development, providing opportunities for learning, and celebrating success in recognition of specific needs of the employees.
• The unique “One Cadence – One Team” culture promotes collaboration within and across teams to ensure customer success
• Multiple avenues of learning and development available for employees to explore as per their specific requirement and interests
• You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other—every day.

Job Summary

VPM is a sign-off tool for Low Power Design and Verification in custom mixed-signal IP designs.

As a part of the VPM R&D team, you will be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the cutting-edge products and features for low power design and verification in custom mixed-signal designs. You will be required to apply your software development, data structures and algorithms, skills along with the key concepts of the low power circuit design and verification to write and update, performance efficient code in C++ and Tcl programming languages, debug and fix code issues and develop and maintain unit and feature tests to test the software. The development environment is Linux so familiarity with Linux operating system, and commands, concepts of make file, UNIX shell scripting is also needed.

The position also requires creating and reviewing functional specification for new VPM features using Microsoft Office Suite tools.

You should be a team player willing to works with other members of the team as well and share your knowledge and learn from others. Knowledge of Low power designs and/or prior experience in EDA tool, QT, GUI and Tcl development would be a plus.

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for applying software development, data structures and algorithms, skills along with the key concepts of the low power circuit design and verification to design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug start-of-the-art software programs in C/C++/Tcl programming languages and shell scripting in Linux Operating system based development environment
• Create and review functional specification for new products and features using Microsoft Office Suite or equivalent tools
• Develop and maintain unit and feature tests to test the software.
• Improve stability, debug capabilities of the software
• Work independently and efficiently
• Works with other members of the team as well and share your knowledge and learn from others
• Continuously scale solutions (runtime, memory, number of CPUs etc.) to take care of next-generation larger designs
• Engage with customers as needed and help in creative solutions

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MS/MTech in Computer Science Engineering or Electrical Engineering or Electronics Engineering

Experience and Technical Skills required

• Minimum 4-year (and maximum 7 years) experience with BE/BTech and minimum 2-year experience (and maximum 5 years) with ME/MS/MTech
• Candidate must have experience of complex software development and maintenance using C/C++
• Strong background in Software data structures and algorithms
• Must have excellent debugging skills and ability to separate out the critical issues from trivial ones.
• Familiarity with following is needed
  • UNIX/Linux development environment, shell scripting,
  • GNU gcc/g++ compilers, linters, linkers, make-file concepts
  • debugging tools like GDB, DDD, or latest IDE, etc.
  • Software memory and run time profiling tools, like valgrind, Kcachegrind, etc.,
  • Static analysis tools like ASAN, Parasoft, ASAN,
  • Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience in one or more of the following flows areas is a big plus:
  • Custom Analog Design and Verification
  • Low power design and Verification in custom mixed signal designs
  • Knowledge of Low Power Specification formats like IEEE1801 (UPF), Liberty, Common Power Format, etc.
  • Digital Implementation flow on advanced nodes
  • EDA tool development
  • Knowledge of QT, GUI and Tcl development
  • Knowledge of scripting languages & Flow development

Behavioral skills required

• Must possess strong written, verbal and presentation skills
• Ability to establish a close working relationship with both customer peers and management
• Explore what’s possible to get the job done, including creative use of unconventional solutions
• Work effectively across functions and geographies
• Push to raise the bar while always operating with integrity

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