What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Principal Application Engineer, Customer Engagement position at Cadence Design Systems Inc?
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Job Duties:
Qualifications:
Job Duties:
- Utilizing engineering background, provide pre-sales and/or post-sales technical customer support including implementation, training, and maintenance support for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and semiconductor intellectual property (IP).
- Develop innovative solutions and custom methodologies to Cadence's Digital Design and Signoff tools, tailoring company technologies to customer workflows and respective design performance targets.
- Analyze customer requirements and drive adoption of Cadence EDA solutions by supporting customer investigations, identifying product gaps, recognizing unmet needs, and delivering technical presentations and demonstration.
- Provide expert-level support by diagnosing and resolving complex issues in Backend Digital Design Implementation, including Synthesis.
- Mentor customers and internal teams by conducting technical training sessions, workshops, and customized consulting engagements on best practices across RTL-GDSII flows, including methodology development for physical design closure, low power optimization, and design for manufacturability at advanced nodes (2nm-7nm).
- Provide expertise in the final stages of design processes in custom designs, improving manufacturing, design checks, and testing iterations.
- Partner with internal engineering and sales teams to influence product enhancements and feature development.
- Work horizontally across various design teams and Cadence R&D engineers to develop new features for Cadence tools.
- Gather and establish methodology, best practices, and solutions to increase in-house productivity.
- Must be available to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- Minimum twelve (12) years of post-baccalaureate, progressive experience in the job offered or in a related engineering occupation.
- Application Specific Integrated Circuit digital (ASIC) design flow using Cadence Tools
- Digital design implementation, Register-Transfer Level (RTL) Synthesis, logic design and synthesis, formal verification, low power design, and timing closure
- Industry standard Cadence EDA front end digital implementation tools including Genus, Innovus, Voltus and related Cadence technologies
- Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design using Cadence Joules RTL Design Studio
- Static Timing Analysis (STA) and Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) to achieve the final design targets
- Place and route physical design flow using EDA tools
- Low power design methodologies including power intent description and verification
- Automation skills using Python, Perl, Tcl, and shell scripting
- Must be available to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States.