Principal Software Engineer
Cadence Design Systems · Noida, India
About this role
Cadence Design Systems is hiring a principal-level Software Engineer based in Noida, India. The posting calls out experience with C, Linux, Data Structures and roughly 8–11 years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Noida, India
- Experience
- 8–11 years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Apr 20, 2026
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Job description
from Cadence Design Systems careersAt Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Position: Principal Software Engineer
Grade: T4
Experience: 8- 11 Years
Location: Bangalore/Noida
Job Responsibilities:
R&D support of application and product engineers for customer problems and requests. This consists of problem analysis, debugging and fixing, or the development of new features and enhancements to improve synthesis results with respect to timing, area and power.
This job will suit applicants looking to continue their software engineering career in an intellectually stimulating and challenging problem domain. There is a significant research element to the work that Cadence does that is truly innovative; we don’t know what the answers are when we start out!
Mentoring and support will be provided to the successful candidate to both enable contribution to the large EDA problem domain and to develop their programming skills into professional software engineering skills.
Job Qualifications:
BE/BTech/ME/MTech- Computer Science or others
Required Skills
Develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance Modus DFT software that is easy to use.
Develop software tools in C/C++ to support BIST, DFT and ATPG.
Research and develop software solutions to allow greater efficiency in architecture, hardware, and software teams.