Senior Product Architect - 3D IC & Heterogeneous Packaging

Cadence Design Systems; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 345,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems is seeking a Product Engineering Architect in San Jose, CA. This senior role leads technical strategy for Cadence Virtuoso along with cross-functional collaboration across Product Management, R&D, and Field teams to define roadmaps for 3D IC, heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging.

You will drive customer engagements, craft high-quality PRS and use cases, mentor engineers, and deliver customer-ready capabilities through the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical field.
• 15+ years of relevant experience in product engineering, methodology development, customer enablement, or technical leadership roles.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of the Cadence Virtuoso platform and related custom IC design flows.
• Ability to shape technical direction and align cross-functional stakeholders around high-value deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Drive, validate and promote an end-to-end solution for system design implementation flows spanning 3D IC, heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging.
• Lead strategic customer engagements, guiding customers to define and deploy advanced heterogeneous integration and multi-die co-design methodologies.
• Influence product roadmap direction by synthesizing customer requirements, market trends, competitive insights, and technical feasibility.
• Produce high-quality Product Requirement Specifications (PRS), technical use cases, and support R&D during product development.
• Provide technical leadership, including requirement trade-off analysis, solution validation, adoption risk assessment, and prioritization of critical bugs and enhancements.
• Mentor and guide product engineers and cross-functional team members on complex design-flow challenges, technical decision-making and customer communication.
• Create executive- and customer-ready technical collateral, demonstrations, application workflows, and enablement materials that accelerate field and customer adoption.
• Represent product engineering in roadmap discussions, customer reviews, product launches, and industry events.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, Product Management, Field teams, Technical Publications and Product Validation to deliver robust, customer-ready capabilities.
• Own deliverables from definition through customer deployment with a strong focus on execution and accountability.

Skills

Semiconductor design

Physical implementation

EDA product engineering

Cadence Virtuoso

Leadership

Education

BS in Electrical Engineering

Tools

APD+

Package design

Job description

Cadence Design Systems is seeking a Product Engineering Architect in San Jose, CA. This senior role leads technical strategy for Cadence Virtuoso along with cross-functional collaboration across Product Management, R&D, and Field teams to define roadmaps for 3D IC, heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging.

You will drive customer engagements, craft high-quality PRS and use cases, mentor engineers, and deliver customer-ready capabilities through the development lifecycle.