Senior Product Engineer, Stratus HLS & AI-Enabled Design

Cadence; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days holiday per year

Private medical and dental plans

Group pension plan

Cycle to work scheme and gym subsidy

Volunteer time to give back to the社区

Job summary

Cadence in Cork, Ireland is seeking a Principal Product Engineer to lead Stratus HLS Solutions. You will bridge customers, field teams and product engineering, owning evaluations and adoption end-to-end while translating real-world design challenges into actionable product requirements.

You will partner with R&D to ensure readiness before software development begins. This role advances Stratus HLS and AI-enabled high-level synthesis methodologies across digital design, demanding strong hardware

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline required.
• Master’s 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.

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-impact investments.
• Deliver evidence-based feedback from customer evaluations and field engagements to improve product quality and reduce production risk.

Skills

C++

RTL design

Customer engagements

Data-driven decisions

Education

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

Master’s degree in related field

Tools

Linux

SystemC

Tcl scripting

EDA tools

Job description

Cadence in Cork, Ireland is seeking a Principal Product Engineer to lead Stratus HLS Solutions. You will bridge customers, field teams and product engineering, owning evaluations and adoption end-to-end while translating real-world design challenges into actionable product requirements.

You will partner with R&D to ensure readiness before software development begins. This role advances Stratus HLS and AI-enabled high-level synthesis methodologies across digital design, demanding strong hardware