Digital Implementation Applications Engineer

Posted:
8/18/2025, 3:10:31 AM

Location(s):
Commerce City, Colorado, United States ⋅ Colorado, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

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

  • Must haves
    • Place-and-route digital implementation (Innovus, ICC, Fusion Compiler)
    • Hierarchical and block-level physical floorplan creation, shaping, optimization
    • Static timing (STA) and power analysis (Tempus, Primetime, Voltus, PTPX)
    • Design-For-Test (DFT) and optimization within implementation flow (Tessent, Modus, Tetramax)
    • Design Constraints (Spyglass, Litmus)
    • Design closure and optimization for PPA, run-time
    • Low power-driven verification, UPF expertise (Conformal, Formality)
    • Experience with advanced FinFET process nodes
    • Coding expertise in TCL, Python
    • Debug, triage, problem-solving skills
    • Sense of urgency, curious, self-aware and self-motivated (emotionally intelligent)
    • Committed to customer success, team player
    • Proactive communicator, results-centric
    • Comfortable presenting to large audiences, performing product demos
    • Flexible working hours to collaborate and coordinate world-wide internal and customer meetings
    • Expect to travel for customer face-to-face visits twice per quarter
  • Nice to have
    • RTL Design implementation
    • Logic/physical synthesis (Design Compiler, Genus, Joules)
    • Machine learning knowledge and expertise
    • US citizenship, green card
  • Location: Remote is fine: Preferred region: CMW, Southwest, Pacific NW, Midwest, Canada

The annual salary range for Colorado is $91,000 to $169,000. 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.

We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

Cadence Design Systems

Website: https://www.cadence.com/

Headquarter Location: San Jose, California, United States

Employee Count: 5001-10000

Year Founded: 1988

IPO Status: Public

Industries: Aerospace ⋅ Electronic Design Automation (EDA) ⋅ Hardware ⋅ Mobile ⋅ Semiconductor ⋅ Software