Principal Application Engineer

What You'll Do

• Lead technical evaluations , proofs ‑ of ‑ concept, and competitive positioning for the Liberate Characterization Suite.
• Work closely with R&D and product management to provide real ‑ world feedback and drive feature enhancements.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, helping them deploy advanced characterization and modeling flows.
• Debug complex customer issues and deliver actionable solutions.
• Mentor and guide junior team members, helping build internal expertise and technical depth.
• Deliver customer trainings, workshops, and technical presentations.
• Partner with Product, R&D and sales team to support business growth and strategic engagements.
• Experience and Technical Skills Required 8–10 years of industry experience in library characterization, modeling, or semiconductor design.
• Proven ability to mentor, guide, and support junior engineers .
• Strong IP characterization background and deep Liberty modeling expertise.
• Thorough understanding of Liberty formats (NLDM, CCS, ECSM, LVF, EM, Aging, etc.).
• Hands ‑ on experience performing characterization using industry ‑ standard tools .
• Experience with industry ‑ standard circuit simulators (Spectre, HSPICE, etc.).
• Strong understanding of CMOS fundamentals , integrated circuit behavior, and advanced nodes (5nm, 3nm).
• Good knowledge of process variation , statistical characterization , and variation ‑ aware modeling.
• Strong problem ‑ solving skills for debugging customer issues.
• Experience with Cadence Liberate and Cadence Spectre is a plus.
• We’re doing work that matters.
• Help us solve what others can’t.