Firmware Engineer II
Cadence Design Systems · Austin, TX
About this role
Cadence Design Systems is hiring a mid-level Embedded Software Engineer in the software engineering function based in Austin, TX. The posting calls out experience with Python, C, Embedded Systems, Data Structures. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Embedded Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Jun 22, 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 Description
Be part of the Cadence DDR PHY IP Front End Design team responsible for -
• Develop firmware for DDR5 PHY using microcontrollers
• Developing firmware in C typically involving bare-metal programming and developing low-level APIs on Microcontrollers.
• Responsible for collaborating with hardware designers and memory subsystem architects to derive training algorithms and implement them.
• Responsible for collaborating with the verification team to deduce firmware-hardware co-verification plan.
• Develop and Debug firmware in RTL based hardware simulations (C +Verilog simulations)
• Develop and Debug on Silicon bring-up boards.
Required Skills:
• Good Knowledge of DDR5 JEDEC spec, knowledge of different DIMM configurations and specifications.
• Relevant experience in developing bare-metal firmware for High-speed SerDes or Memory interface Physical Layer blocks.
• Good Knowledge of C programming language for embedded software development and use of relevant IDE.
• Comfortable debugging RTL simulations involving firmware and microcontroller subsystem.
• Good knowledge of Shell/Perl/Python/TCL scripting
• Good experience on Verification EDA Tools like simulators and waveform viewers