Job Description 

As an integral North American Field Applications Engineering (AE) Team member, you will work directly with industry-leading semiconductor and system companies to deploy Cadence’s market-leading Jasper Formal Verification products. In this customer-facing role, you will provide front-line technical support in the Pre and Post-Sales process. You will work with the account team and product developers to develop innovative solutions to our customer’s most challenging problems. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Establish technical credibility and rapport with customers ranging from formal beginners to sophisticated experts. 

• Provide world-class reactive support, proactive training, and problem consultation to make our product users successful. 

• Collaborate with R&D to introduce new formal flows and Apps to customers. 

• Champion customer needs and help R&D and product engineers develop competitive and creative technical solutions. 

• Understand the competitive landscape and continuously work on differentiating Cadence’s solutions. 

• Mentor junior AE’s and foster a collaborative, team-oriented work environment. 

• Represent Cadence at technical conferences and trade shows. 

The critical skills needed to excel in this position are: 

• Strong understanding of RTL design, including the latest features of SystemVerilog. 

• Deep knowledge of how to apply formal property-checking tools to various functional verification problems. 

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.  Strong interpersonal skills. 

• Knowledge of simulation-based verification concepts such as transactors, scoreboards, functional coverage models, etc. 

• Knowledge of UNIX, scripting languages such as TCL, grid computing dispatchers, and EDA tool administration 

• Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision. 

Minimum Experience 

            - Minimum industrial experience required: 3+ years 

• Advanced degree in a related field is desired