Software Engineer

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

Job Duties:

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs for multinational computational software company.
• Analyze user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Support advanced technology rule by improving existing data structures to meet the rule requirements and integrate the rule-based features with advanced electronic design automation (EDA) flow.
• Optimize power, performance, and area (PPA) with large-scale statistical analysis on regressions and customized algorithm development and implementation.
• Reduce software runtime by experiments with critical runtime case and system design to shorten customer product development cycle time.
• Improve software scalability by refining existing multi-thread and distributed systems to support the increasing complexity and size in advanced technology.
• Maintain detail route core engine with domain knowledge, modern program language (C++20), computer architecture, and compiler optimization to improve software stability and flexibility.
• Support customer requirements by coworking with application engineers and product engineers to achieve timely troubleshooting.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related engineering occupation.
• Digital synthesis and physical design flow using Genus and Innovus
• Analyze complex designs on advanced technology node using C, C++, Python, and TCL
• Design rules on 10nm/7nm/5nm/3nm and below technology nodes, including double patterning, via spacing and other trim rules
• Provide detail route solutions on advanced technology designs
• Detail routing algorithms including physical design rules, timing and power requirements
• Congestion, hotspot and Design Rule Checking (DRC) analysis, including developing functions to analyze and report routing hotspots based on congestion metrics and design rule violations, applied to both globalRoute and detailRoute to improve final routing results
• Fundamental mathematical concepts in machine learning and deep learning, including multimodal auto-encoder, deep canonical correlation analysis, multi-kernel learning, attention models and multimodal recurrent neural networks
• Fundamental principles and engineering trade-offs involved in designing modern parallel computers

The annual salary range for California is $186,142 to $253,500. 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 base salary range is a guideline, and individual total 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.

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