Lead Design Engineer
Cadence Design Systems · Pune 04
senior
operations
Systems Engineer
ic
· Posted Jun 18, 2026
Skills
About this role
Cadence Design Systems is hiring a senior-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Pune 04. The posting calls out experience with Python, Backend Development.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Pune 04
- Posted
- Jun 18, 2026
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.
Job Responsibilities:
- The Candidate will have design responsibility, including floor planning, power grid design, place and route, clock tree synthesis, timing/SI closure, power / EM-IR signoff, physical verification (DRC/LVS/Antenna), and DFM Closure.
- Physical design implementation of state-of-the-art Cadence IPs using Cadence EDA tools - Genus, Innovus, Tempus, Voltus and other backend tools
- Physical design for PPA optimization of performance and power-oriented best-in-class interface IPs such as DDR, LPDDR, PCIE, UCIE, etc and test chips for advanced process nodes, such as 7nm/5nm/3nm/2nm
- An opportunity to work on many varieties of challenging designs, i.e., low power, high-speed and area optimized designs.
- Work closely with RTL design team & Analog Team to ensure on-time, successful tapeouts.
Required skills –
- B.Tech/BE/ME/Mtech with 4-6 years hands-on experience in physical design and physical verification.
- Experienced with ASIC design flow, hierarchical physical design strategies, methodologies and understand deep sub-micron technology issues.
- Solid knowledge on physical design, static timing analysis, Low Power Design, EM/IR /crosstalk analysis, formal verification, physical verification, DFM, DFT.
- Successful track records of taping out complex IP’s & SoC’s at 16/10/7/5/3 nm with different foundries.
- Power user of Cadence implementation tools, such as Genus, Innovus, Quantus, Tempus, PVS, Voltus will be an added advantage
- Automation and programming-minded, coding experience in Makefile/Tcl/Tk/Perl/python assisted with AI.
- Should have excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, should be self-motivated and good team player
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