Sr Principal Product Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.  Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

The Cadence Advantage

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
• Cadence’s employee-friendly policies focus on the physical and mental well-being of employees, career development, providing opportunities for learning, and celebrating success in recognition of specific needs of the employees.
• The unique “One Cadence – One Team” culture promotes collaboration within and across teams to ensure customer success
• Multiple avenues of learning and development available for employees to explore as per their specific requirement and interests
• You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other—every day.

Position Description 

Cadence is looking for a Product Engineer to join the team behind Perspec, Cadence’s Portable Stimulus solution used by leading semiconductor companies to solve complex SoC and system-level verification.

Focus: Deploying Portable Stimulus (PSS) in large SoC verification environments and solving complex generation and solver problems in collaboration with semiconductor customers and Cadence R&D.

Challenges.

This role sits at the intersection of verification methodology, system architecture, and EDA product engineering. You will work directly with advanced verification teams at major semiconductor companies to deploy Portable Stimulus (PSS) in real production environments and help drive the evolution of Perspec.

The work spans formal languages, simulation, emulation, virtual platforms, firmware-driven verification, and post-silicon reuse, and increasingly involves AI-assisted verification workflows.

What You Will Do

• Work directly with semiconductor design and verification teams to deploy Portable Stimulus methodologies in complex SoC programs.
• Help debug difficult generation and solver issues involving constraints, resources, execution ordering, and scenario realization.
• Investigate real-world modeling challenges that arise in large system-level PSS environments.
• Collaborate closely with Cadence R&D to diagnose tool issues, influence new features, and improve PSS standard
• Help define and refine methodologies for scalable system-level verification.
• Develop reference models, internal knowledge, and best practices used by both customers and Cadence field teams.
• Support advanced system-level verification use cases including:

->software-driven verification

->device programming flows

->reuse between simulation, emulation, and post-silicon

->integration with virtual platforms and firmware environments

• Contribute to emerging AI-assisted verification flows built around PSS models.

 Required Background

• 12+ years of experience in SoC verification, validation, or verification methodology
• Strong hands-on experience with SystemVerilog and UVM or embedded / bare metal environments
• Solid understanding of constrained-random verification and system-level test generation
• Experience debugging complex verification environments
• Strong programming or scripting skills (C/C++/Python or similar)
• Ability to work directly with engineering teams to solve difficult technical problems

Helpful Experience

• Exposure to Portable Stimulus (PSS) or interest in learning it
• Experience with Perspec or other PSS tools
• Experience working with complex SoC subsystems and protocols such as PCIe, DDR, networking, or ARM-based SoCs
• Experience with embedded software programming and bare-metal environments
• Familiarity with emulation, virtual platforms, or post-silicon validation
• Experience developing verification methodology or reusable verification libraries

Why This Role Is Interesting

Portable Stimulus is changing how system-level verification is done.

In this role you will work on real verification problems at scale, interacting with some of the most advanced verification teams in the industry and helping shape how hardware/software co-verification is done across simulation, emulation, and silicon.

If you enjoy deep technical problem solving, modeling complex systems, and working close to both customers and EDA tool development, this is a unique role.

Position Requirements   

EDUCATION: MS in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering with 12+ year experience or BE/BTech in Electrical/Computer/Electronics Engineering.

Behavioral skills required:

• Must possess strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrate teamwork and collaboration skills.
• Ability to establish a close working relationship with both customer peers and management.
• Explore what’s possible to get the job done, including creative use of unconventional solutions
• Work effectively across functions and geographies
• Push to raise the bar while always operating with integrity

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