Design Engineer

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

Job Duties:

• Maintain and develop a database of internally developed IP that drives the design, modeling, characterization, and Quality Assurance (QA) flows of standard cell libraries across multiple process technologies.
• Collaborate with circuit design engineering, layout, and software automation teams to build solutions that improve the design flow.
• Evaluate and apply proprietary design techniques, internally developed software tools, and externally supported Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to implement design and verification methodologies.
• Enable IP creation, validation, modeling, benchmarking, and release for standard cell library products in various foundries and technology nodes.
• Develop spice simulation source for tuning and margining of electrical circuits.
• Develop and test EDA tool configurations required for view modeling and verification.
• Ensure quality through regression testing and QA checks.
• Some telecommuting permitted. 

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum one (1) year of experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
• MOSFET electrical characteristics
• Set up and run SPICE simulations using simulators such as Spectre or HSPICE
• Transistor level design of static circuits including state retaining elements like latches and flops
• Layout and circuit design
• Standard cell characterization tools such as Liberate or Solido
• Statistical simulations including Monte Carlo Analysis and High Sigma Monte Carlo simulations using Solido tool
• Scripting in Python or Perl

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