Senior Product Engineer: ASIC Design & Signoff Expert

Cadence Design Systems; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems in Austin seeks a Principal Product Engineer for the Digital and Signoff Group (DSG). You will provide place-and-route expertise, support products, and help debug customer issues across RTL, synthesis, placement, clocking, and signoff flows.

This role demands strong problem solving, communication, and collaboration with R&D and customers. The ideal candidate has senior-level experience in digital implementation, timing analysis, and EDA tool usage, with a track record of

Qualifications

• MS in EE with 5+ years of experience in Digital Implementation, either as a design engineer or as a product engineer.
• BS in EE with 8+ years of experience in Digital Implementation, either as a design engineer or as a product engineer.
• Strong understanding of VLSI physical design and timing analysis; familiarity with RTL synthesis, placement optimization, clock tree synthesis, routing optimization and silicon signoff.
• Experience with industry standard EDA tools in Synthesis, Physical design and Signoff at 16nm and below nodes.
• Exposure to, and solid understanding of, hierarchical design methodologies and low power design.
• Energetic team player with a passion for problem solving
• Strong analysis skills with a track record to prove it
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Automation skills using Perl, Tcl and shell scripting

Responsibilities

• Support Cadence products in the Digital and Signoff team.
• Track and debug customer issues and work with R&D and release team on issue resolution.
• Run design benchmarks and develop flows and solutions

Skills

Strong communication skills

Strong analytical skills

Team player

Problem solving

Education

MS in EE with 5+ years of experience in Digital Implementation, either as a design engineer or as a product engineer

BS in EE with 8+ years of experience in Digital Implementation, either as a design engineer or as a product engineer

Tools

Perl

Tcl

Shell scripting

Synthesis tools

Physical design tools

Signoff tools

Job description

Cadence Design Systems in Austin seeks a Principal Product Engineer for the Digital and Signoff Group (DSG). You will provide place-and-route expertise, support products, and help debug customer issues across RTL, synthesis, placement, clocking, and signoff flows.

This role demands strong problem solving, communication, and collaboration with R&D and customers. The ideal candidate has senior-level experience in digital implementation, timing analysis, and EDA tool usage, with a track record of