Principal Product Engineer: Customer-Facing Bring-Up

Cadence Design Systems; Cary (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems in Cary, NC seeks a Principal Product Engineer to act as the primary technical liaison with top-tier customers, managing communications and driving silicon bring-up and product integration. You will collaborate with internal teams and customer program managers to deliver high-quality outcomes on aggressive schedules.

The role requires hands‑on experience in Physical and Protocol layers validation for high-speed SERDES technologies, and the ability to coordinate reviews

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with +2 years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree.
• Strong communication and organizational abilities.
• Willingness to travel onsite (10%).

Responsibilities

• Act as the main technical liaison for customer engineering teams and lead weekly customer calls.
• Coordinate program integration, milestones, and reviews; provide status updates.
• Validate Physical and Protocol layers for high‑speed interfaces (e.g., PCIe, Ethernet, USB).
• Organize and lead technical reviews such as SDC/constraint checks and bring‑up test plans.
• Document kickoff materials, status dashboards, and silicon reports; track metrics.

Skills

Customer communication

Problem solving

Project coordination

Customer focus

Education

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

Tools

Oscilloscopes

BERTs

Protocol analyzers

SFDC

Jira

Job description

Cadence Design Systems in Cary, NC seeks a Principal Product Engineer to act as the primary technical liaison with top-tier customers, managing communications and driving silicon bring-up and product integration. You will collaborate with internal teams and customer program managers to deliver high-quality outcomes on aggressive schedules.

The role requires hands‑on experience in Physical and Protocol layers validation for high-speed SERDES technologies, and the ability to coordinate reviews