Sr Principal Design Engineer

What You'll Do

• Customer Enablement & Solutions: Collaborate with frontline engineering teams and customers to develop, deploy, productize, and optimize advanced protocol solutions on Palladium and Protium platforms.
• Requirements & Feature Development: Define and develop customer-specific emulation and prototyping requirements, focusing heavily on leading edge high-speed interfaces and memory protocols (e.g., PCIe, CXL).
• Advanced Solutions Engineering: Drive the development of advanced acceleration FW + FPGA system solutions, establish robust verification methodologies, and support the operation and maintenance of Cadence emulation tools.
• Root-Cause Debugging: Triage and resolve complex, systemic issues across the hardware/software boundary, optimizing driver behavior, protocol compliance, and overall system stability.
• Evaluations & Benchmarking: Lead technical evaluations and develop high-performance benchmarks to demonstrate the competitive advantages of Cadence hardware platforms.
• Technical Presentation: Create and deliver impactful technical presentations, white papers, and product demonstrations for existing and prospective customers.
• What You’ll Need BS with a minimum of 10 years of experience or MS with a minimum of 7 years of experience Strong fundamentals in digital design, computer architecture, and system‑level verification Have deep technical knowledge in a few of; Simulation (Advanced Testbench), Emulation (TBA & ICE) & FPGA Prototyping Experience with hardware description languages (SystemVerilog/Verilog) and/or C/C++ Understanding of standard interconnect or IO protocols used in modern chip designs Good debugging skills using waveforms, logs, and protocol analyzers Ability to work across hardware and software boundaries.
• Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills, ability to work in an international environment The annual salary range for California is $154,000 to $286,000.
• You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation: bonus, equity, and benefits.
• Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure.
• Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.
• Our benefits programs include: paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.
• We’re doing work that matters.
• Help us solve what others can’t.