Principal Emulation Field Application Engineer, Irvine, CA Cadence Design Systems
Irvine, CA

Job Description

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

Location: Irvine, CA

As an integral member of the North American Field Applications Engineering (AE) Team, leveraging your existing expertise in Verification, Emulation, and Simulation Acceleration, you will work directly with industry leading semiconductor and system companies to deploy Cadence's market leading Palladium acceleration and emulation platform. In this customer facing role you will provide the front line technical support in the Pre- and Post-Sales process and will work with the account team to come up with innovative solutions to address our customers most challenging problems. Key responsibilities in this position are to:

* Establish technical credibility and rapport with the customer and become the go-to expert for all of their technical inquiries and support
* Provide in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R&D to help support advanced acceleration/emulation flows to secure design wins
* Champion customer needs and work with R&D and Marketing to develop competitive and creative technical solutions
* Understand the competitive landscape and continuously work on differentiating Cadence solutions
* Write technical product literature such as application notes and technical articles
* Review new product proposals and device specifications

The major focus of this role will be on Transaction Based Acceleration (TBA) and Emulation will require strong skills in the following areas:

* Design fundamentals such as architecture, micro-architecture, HDLs and Synthesis and timing
* Verification skills such as UVM testbench architecture, development and debug; Systemverilog
* Fundamental SoC Architecture knowledge
* Embedded software development and HW/SW codesign and coverification
* Knowledge of UNIX , C/C++, scripting programming languages such as Perl, TCL
* Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
* Self motivated and strong teamwork skills

Experience in HW acceleration, In-Circuit Emulation or FPGA prototyping is highly desirable

Minimum Experience

* Minimum experience required: 5+ years

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