Sr Principal AE - Emulation

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Join our elite Application Engineering team for Emulation and FPGA Prototyping to work closely with the best AEs, PEs and R D in EDA at a company listed in Fortune magazine and Great Place to Work as one of the 2026 World's Best Workplaces™ for the ninth time!

As an integral member of the North America Verification Field Applications Engineering (AE) Team, you will work directly with industry leading semiconductor and system companies to deploy Cadence's market leading Emulation and FPGA Prototyping platforms, Palladium and Protium. In this customer facing role you will provide the front line technical support in the pre and post-sales process and will work with account team to come up with innovative solutions to address our customers' most challenging problems in emulation and prototyping.

In this role, you will develop customer specific emulation and prototyping requirements, including advanced acceleration component development, methodology support, and operation and maintenance of Cadence's emulation and prototyping tools and services. You will support technical evaluations and benchmark development for Cadence's market leading tools such as Palladium acceleration and emulation platform and Protium prototyping platform. You will create and conduct technical presentations and product demonstrations for customers. ResponsibilitiesEstablish technical credibility and rapport with the customer and become the go-to expert for all of their technical inquiries and supportProvide in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R D to help support advanced verification flows to secure design winsChampion the customer needs and work closely with R D and marketing to develop competitive and creative technical solutionsUnderstand the competitive landscape and continuously work on differentiating Cadence's solutionsWrite technical product literature such as application notes and technical articlesReview new product proposals and device specificationsAssume technical leadership roles in team as needed

RequirementsMinimum:

5+ years industry experienceExperience in HW acceleration, in-circuit Emulation or FPGA prototypingMS.or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field Strong RTL and Testbench debug skillsExperience in Synthesizable coding styleExperience in writing scripts (Perl, Python or TCL)Strong software, HDL design and verification skillsExperience with SystemVerilog, VHDL, Verilog, C/C++/SystemCAbility to quickly analyze verification environments and design complexityStrong verbal and written communication skillsStrong teamwork skillsAbility to interact effectively with both external customers and R D teams

Preferred:

Experience with multiple clock domains and asynchronous interfaces Knowledge of the FPGA development process & tool flow from RTL to bitstream for Xilinx and/or Altera productsHands on experience with lab bring up, debug, chipscope and instrument usageExperience with C/C++/SystemCKnowledge of fundamental SoC Architecture knowledgeUnderstanding of embedded software development and HW/SW co-design and co-verificationKnowledge of protocols like JTAG, UART, PCIe, AMBA, DDR, CHIKnowledge of design fundamentals such as architecture, micro-architecture, HDLs and Synthesis and timing We're doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can't.