Lead Software Engineer

What You'll Do

• Architecture & Design (Core Engine & Workflow) High-Load Dataflow & Workflow Engineering: Design robust internal dataflows, defining how massive datasets smoothly migrate between the computational backend and downstream platform workflows.
• Core Optimization: Architect high-performance, UI-agnostic core structures and algorithms to optimize data throughput, memory footprints, and heavy computation cycles.
• Asynchronous Multi-Threading: Implement advanced multi-threading and parallel processing patterns to isolate heavy background database operations from the application's interactive layers. 2.
• Tool Interoperability & SKILL Integration High-Performance IPC Implementation: Design, optimize, and maintain efficient Inter-Process Communication (IPC) mechanisms to enable seamless data exchange with concurrent Cadence tools.
• Cross-Tool Communication: Build reliable, low-latency communication bridges between Quantus Insight and other EDA tools within the ecosystem to sync design and layout data.
• SKILL Language Integration: Expose internal application states, UI triggers, and core APIs via robust programmatic interfaces accessible to the SKILL runtime environment.
• Dynamic State Synchronization: Ensure that data modifications, cross-tool commands, and execution results triggered via IPC/SKILL scripts are instantly and dynamically updated within the Qt user interface. 3.
• GUI Development (Qt Framework) Widgets Implementation: Drive the hands-on development and implementation of the Quantus Insight graphical user interface using C++ and the Qt Widgets framework.
• Big Data Presentation: Build and customize high-scale Qt Model/View components (trees, tables, forms) optimized for lazy loading, data paging, and minimal memory overhead.
• Linux Environment Profiling: Deeply profile, debug (using GDB/Valgrind), and tune UI performance under extreme memory and CPU utilization in Linux desktop environments.
• Job Qualifications & Experience Education: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience: 4+ years of professional software development experience (or 5+ years with an advanced degree) focused on complex desktop application UIs and tool integration.
• Required Skills Expert C++: Deep proficiency in modern C++ (C++ 17 or newer) including STL.
• Linux Expertise: Advanced development, debugging (GDB, Valgrind), and performance profiling in Linux environments.
• Software Engineering: Strong grasp of object-oriented design, design patterns, and the full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Additional Skills/Preferences QT Framework: Experience with the Qt framework for GUI development is a big plus.
• SKILL / Lisp Language: Prior experience writing, debugging, or interfacing with Cadence SKILL language scripts is highly desirable.
• Given that SKILL is based on Lisp, strong experience with Lisp dialect programming (e.g., Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure) is highly valued.
• System Programming / IPC: Practical experience with Linux systems programming, including shared memory, sockets, named pipes, or signal handling.
• EDA Experience: Knowledge of parasitic extraction, layout connectivity, or physical verification.
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• Help us solve what others can’t.