Principal Product Engineer

Cadence Design Systems; Cork; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days holiday per year

Private Medical and Dental plans

Income protection

Life insurance

Group pension plan

Cycle to work and gym subsidy

Volunteer days

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems seeks a Principal Product Engineer for the Stratus HLS Solutions team in Cork, Ireland. You will own customer evaluations from scoping to production sign-off, translating real-world design challenges into actionable product requirements and partnering with R&D to ensure development readiness before software begins.

You will lead trainings, identify new use cases including AI-assisted flows, and collaborate with product management, R&D, and field teams to drive adoption and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Master’s degree in a related field strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of combined experience in hardware design, EDA applications engineering, product engineering, or closely related field.
• Strong background in digital hardware design targeting ASIC or FPGA, including hands-on RTL design experience.
• Working proficiency in C++, with the ability to read, evaluate, and discuss technical design trade-offs at implementation level.
• Experience using hardware design and EDA tools in a Linux environment, including scripted flows and command-line tool operation.
• Demonstrated experience converting customer or stakeholder requirements into clear, structured product or functional specifications.
• Track record of managing technical engagements with external customers or users, driving outcomes from evaluation through production adoption.
• Ability to influence technical direction across engineering, product, and field teams through clear written and verbal communication backed by data.

Responsibilities

• Drive new customer evaluations of the Cadence Stratus HLS solution from initial scoping through successful production sign-off, partnering with field application engineers and sales teams throughout the engagement.
• Resolve complex technical design issues for existing HLS customers, delivering solutions that unblock projects and strengthen long-term platform adoption.
• Provide hands-on training on HLS methodology and tool features to new and existing users, improving customer competency and self-sufficiency.
• Identify emerging customer use cases and research new HLS capabilities that would accelerate adoption of next-generation design methodologies, including AI-assisted flows.
• Author product requirement specifications that translate customer and field observations into precise, actionable requirements suitable for software development planning.
• Contribute to, review, and refine functional specifications in close collaboration with product management and R&D, ensuring every specification is development-ready before implementation begins.
• Define feature requirements that advance the Stratus HLS tool flow and design methodology, grounding recommendations in documented customer evidence.
• Manage and grow relationships with internal partners across product management, R&D, field application engineering, and solutions teams to align roadmap priorities with delivery outcomes.
• Represent the voice of the customer in internal roadmap and planning discussions, providing qualitative and quantitative evidence to prioritize high-impacted investments.
• Deliver evidence-based feedback from customer evaluations and field engagements to improve product quality and reduce production risk.

Skills

RTL design

C++

Linux

Scripting

SystemC

HLS tools

Stratus HLS

Catapult

Vitis HLS

AI in hardware

EDA tools

Jira

Confluence

Tcl scripting

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Linux

Job description

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

Job Title

Principal Product Engineer - Stratus HLS Solutions

Location

Cork, Ireland

Reports to

Engineering Group Director, Stratus HLS

Job Overview

Cadence is seeking a Principal Product Engineer to join the Stratus High Level Synthesis (HLS) Solutions Engineering team in Cork and serve as a critical bridge between customers, field teams, and the product engineering organization. In this role, you will own customer evaluations and production adoption engagements end-to-end, translate real-world design challenges into actionable product requirement specifications, and partner closely with R&D to ensure requirements are development-ready before software development begins. This role is central to advancing Stratus HLS and supporting the adoption of AI-enabled, high-level synthesis methodologies across digital design.

Job Responsibilities

• Drive new customer evaluations of the Cadence Stratus HLS solution from initial scoping through successful production sign-off, partnering with field application engineers and sales teams throughout the engagement.
• Resolve complex technical design issues for existing HLS customers, delivering solutions that unblock projects and strengthen long-term platform adoption.
• Provide hands-on training on HLS methodology and tool features to new and existing users, improving customer competency and self-sufficiency.
• Identify emerging customer use cases and research new HLS capabilities that would accelerate adoption of next-generation design methodologies, including AI-assisted flows.
• Author product requirement specifications that translate customer and field observations into precise, actionable requirements suitable for software development planning.
• Contribute to, review, and refine functional specifications in close collaboration with product management and R&D, ensuring every specification is development-ready before implementation begins.
• Define feature requirements that advance the Stratus HLS tool flow and design methodology, grounding recommendations in documented customer evidence.
• Manage and grow relationships with internal partners across product management, R&D, field application engineering, and solutions teams to align roadmap priorities with delivery outcomes.
• Represent the voice of the customer in internal roadmap and planning discussions, providing qualitative and quantitative evidence to prioritize high-impacted investments.
• Deliver evidence-based feedback from customer evaluations and field engagements to improve product quality and reduce production risk.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline required.
• Masters degree in a related field strongly preferred.
• 5+ years of combined experience in hardware design, EDA applications engineering, product engineering, or a closely related field.
• Strong background in digital hardware design targeting ASIC or FPGA, including hands-on RTL design experience.
• Working proficiency in C++, with the ability to read, evaluate, and discuss technical design trade-offs at implementation level.
• Experience using hardware design and EDA tools in a Linux environment, including scripted flows and command-line tool operation.
• Demonstrated experience converting customer or stakeholder requirements into clear, structured product or functional specifications.
• Track record of managing technical engagements with external customers or users, driving outcomes from evaluation through production adoption.
• Ability to influence technical direction across engineering, product, and field teams through clear written and verbal communication backed by data.

Additional Skills/Preferences

• Working knowledge of SystemC, the primary input language for Stratus HLS, is a significant advantage.
• Experience with High Level Synthesis tools or methodologies such as Stratus HLS, Catapult, Vitis HLS, or similar is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted hardware design flows or experience integrating AI tools into a hardware design context.
• Prior experience supporting EDA tools in a field or solutions engineering capacity.
• Exposure to requirements management processes or tools such as JIRA, Confluence, or internal specification review workflows.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading knowledge-sharing sessions such as training workshops or technical deep-dives.
• Familiarity with Tcl scripting for EDA tool automation.

Additional Information

The Stratus Solutions Engineering team is a small, high-impact group that sits at the intersection of product, field, and engineering. This role works closely with Field Application Engineers, Account Managers, Product Management, R&D Software Engineers, Solutions and Specialist Engineers across the Cadence Digital & Signoff Group, and broader Cadence AI platform teams. The role is based in Cadence's Cork, Ireland office and uses tools and systems including C++, SystemC, Tcl, Python, Stratus HLS, JasperGold, Genus, Innovus, JIRA, Confluence, Git, SVN, and Perforce.

Travel

Up to 15% travel expected, primarily for customer site visits and engagements at key accounts in Europe, with occasional travel to Cadence engineering and sales offices.

Check what we can offer you

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday per year
• Private Medical and Dental plans
• Income Protection and Life Insurance
• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Cycle to work scheme and gym subsidy
• 5 days paid time to volunteer to give back to our communities
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• The opportunity to work for a Great Place to Work and Fortune 100 organization

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