The Cadence IP Vision is to deliver industry leading IP solutions to enable our customers to be successful across these fast-moving application spaces. 

The Senior Principal Digital Design Engineer will be based in Cork, as part of an experienced Controller IP Team with long established Controller development sites in Europe, US and India. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Understanding proper handling of multiple asynchronous clock domains and their crossings
• Understanding of Lint checks and proper resolution of errors
• Understanding of synthesis timing constraints, static timing analysis and constraint development
• Understanding of fundamental physical design flows and stages
• Candidate should be able to debug and contribute to DFT architectures for hard IP, soft IP, and integrated IP test chips.
• Liaison between Controller, PHY and Test chip teams.
• Technical leadership during the development of complex Ethernet IP development
• Planning of activities and milestones for the Digital Controller Development teams.
• Leadership of cross-functional technical meetings
• Support customer pre-sales and post-sales meetings.
• Participate in Technical Review Meetings and Checklist Reviews as part of ISO-9001.

Job Qualifications:

• Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics, or a related discipline.
• 10-15 years’ experience in microelectronics/EDA industry.
• In depth experience with Logic Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis and Constraints Development. 
• Experience in Ethernet Systems, or other packet Protocol.
• Experience in top-down and bottom-up digital design processes.
• Experience of Verilog/System Verilog RTL Design
• Experience of Front-end design tools covering LINT, Synthesis, CDC Analysis essential.
• Scripting Experience (Perl, TCL, Python)
• Experience of Technical Team leadership essential.
• Excellent oral and written English essential.
• Self-motivated with excellent planning, interpersonal, and communication skills.

Additional Skills/Preferences:               

• Experience of SoC Architecture and Development
• Experience of Quality processes, such as ISO-9001 & ISO-26262 preferred.
• Experience of Front-end design tools covering LINT, Synthesis, CDC Analysis preferred.

Additional Information:

Cadence is committed to equal employment opportunity and employment equity throughout all levels of the organization. We strive to attract a qualified and diverse candidate pool and encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace.