Principal FPGA Design Engineer

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

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

Protium Prototyping Platform is part of the Cadence Dynamic Duo that has been a huge success with our customers. With Cadence Protium prototyping platforms, design and verification teams can rapidly bring up a prototype and provide a pre-silicon platform for early software development, system validation, and hardware regressions.

Protium is leading product in FPGA Emulation/Prototyping domain. This role is to design, verification, timing closure and hardware validation of the FPGA IPs.

• Developing field-programmable gate array intellectual properties (FPGA IPs) for Protium platform, including design, verification, integration, timing closure, documentation and releasing the IPs to end users;
• Working on FPGA IP Design, Verification/Simulation, Timing closure, Validation of IP on the hardware;
• Enhancing current IPs as well as developing new IPs.
• Debug and fix internal regression failures for FPGA IPs.
• Documentation of IPs

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Master degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of experience
• Experience with FPGA design and verification using Verilog
• Experience with high end Xilinx(AMD) FPGAs including using Vivado tool for simulation, Place and route
• Experience in debugging FPGAs in the lab using Vivado hardware manager, debugging with firmware/software
• Experience using Linux servers, Script development using Shell/Perl/TCL
• Experience using Cadence Simulators Incisive or Xcelium
• Detailed knowledge about industry standard interfaces such as PCI Express, DRAM/DDR4, SRAM, I2C, JTAG, AXI

The annual salary range for California is $131,600 to $244,400. 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.
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