Principal Solutions Engineer

Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.  Cadence customers are the world's most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including hyperscale computing, automotive, 5G communications, aerospace, industrial, consumer and health.

The Cadence Advantage

• The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in an environment that encourages you to be creative, innovative, and to make an impact.
• Cadence's employee-friendly policies focus on the physical and mental well-being of employees, career development, providing opportunities for learning, and celebrating success in recognition of specific needs of the employees.
• The unique "One Cadence – One Team" culture promotes collaboration within and across teams to ensure customer success
• Multiple avenues of learning and development available for employees to explore as per their specific requirement and interests
• You get to work with a diverse team of passionate, dedicated, and talented individuals who go above and beyond for our customers, our communities, and each other—every day.

Job Summary

As a member of Cadence Solutions Organization, you will work closely with our worldwide customers to build Virtual/Hybrid prototypes to enable early software development and system validation. This involves understanding of customer requirements, studying hardware specifications, building accurate and high-performance models/platforms, and deploying Cadence solutions for production use.

You will have an opportunity to acquire both breadth and depth of technical knowledge, get wide exposure to latest hardware and software architectures that customers are working on, and keep pace with the latest developments in model-based systems engineering/hybrid prototyping.

As first-hand users of Cadence Virtual and Hybrid tooling, combined with deeper understanding of customer expectations, you shall have the opportunity to provide invaluable feedback to product teams to continuously improve the underlying tools and technologies.

This an excellent opportunity to work in a supportive and friendly work environment, where we are vested in each other's success, and we are passionate about technology, learning and innovation.

Job Responsibilities

• Understand customer software and system validation requirements to assess specific modelling needs.
• Create, optimize and validate system models using C/C++/SystemC.
• Integrate and validate models/platforms into bigger hierarchies.
• Bring-up production SW stacks on Virtual/Hybrid platforms.
• Help customers debug SW bring-up and system validation issues.
• Help build custom flows between third party tools and Cadence Virtual/Hybrid tooling.

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MS/MTech in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronics

Experience and Technical Skills

• 8+ years of relevant experience in Virtual/Hybrid Prototyping.
• Sound knowledge of C/C++/SystemC/scripting languages.
• Sound understanding of computer architecture and embedded SW stacks.
• Skills around integrating flows involving debug and simulation tools is desired.
• Must have excellent debugging skills with ability to understand HW/SW interactions.

Behavioral skills

• Must possess strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Good customer facing inter-personal skills.
• Leadership qualities to drive growth and innovation.
• Work effectively across functions and geographies.
• Push to raise the bar while always operating with integrity