Lead Design Engineer

Posted:
7/19/2026, 6:00:56 PM

Location(s):
Telangana, India ⋅ Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

Pay:
$123k–$320k/yr

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

  • Development, automation and maintenance of EDA flows and scripts for physical implementation
  • Develop TFM to optimize PPA for IP’s and Soft Controllers
  • PPA characterization and optimization of flow for performance-oriented and power-oriented best-in-class IP cores in advanced process nodes, on TSMC, Intel, Samsung and Rapidus Foundries
  • Manage regression infrastructure that tracks quality of the RTL/flow development as well as the PPA of the key designs.
  • Digital design implementation using Cadence EDA tools - Genus, Innovus, Conformal, Litmus, Tempus, Voltus, Certus, Pegasus and other backend tools
  • Candidate will be working on automation of Full chip floorplanning using latest AI tools. Involving in active AI agent based partition for Full Chip Floorplanning.
  • Required skills –
  • Educational Qualification: MS/MTech/BE/ BTech  in Electronics from reputed institutes with 5 + years' experience
  • Physical design experience in ASIC design environment
  • Should have knowledge of complete ASIC Design Flow, including Synthesis, Physical Designing , Timing Analysis, Power Analysis and Formal Verification
  • Should have excellent leadership, communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Expertise on High frequency design methodologies for complete ASIC backend flows.
  • Candidate with experience in Full Chip (SoC level) floorplanning, pin assignment, global clock distribution across all subsystems is a plus point.
  • Good communication skills, strong analytical problem solving skills and willingness to learn quickly.
  • Solid scripting skills including Python and Tcl.
  • Should be self-motivated and good team player.

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

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