Sr Principal Software Engineer

Posted:
3/30/2026, 11:50:25 AM

Location(s):
Hanam-si, Gyeonggi, South Korea ⋅ Gyeonggi, South Korea

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

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

Job Overview:

This role will contribute directly to the development and enhancement of AMBA Performance verification and/or Unipro stack products, focusing on protocol functionality, performance, and robustness. Depending on the specific protocol area, the work may involve:

  • Implementing AMBA protocol features and state machines
  • Enhancing performance and scalability on emulation platforms
  • Developing debug, trace, and analysis capabilities
  • Working with customers and field teams to resolve issues and deliver solutions related to AMBA (CHI*, ACE, AXI)

Job Responsibilities:

  • Designing and implementing protocol functionality in AMBA AVIP
  • Developing and debugging BFMs, transactors, and associated software interfaces
  • Ensuring correctness, performance, and scalability in emulation and acceleration flows
  • Collaborating with cross‑functional teams 
  • Participating in feature bring‑up, regression, and release activities
  • Supporting customer issues, reproducing problems, and delivering fixes
  • GUI based performance analysis tool development 

Job Qualifications:

  • Strong fundamentals in digital design, computer architecture, and system‑level verification
  • Experience with hardware description languages (SystemVerilog/Verilog) and/or C/C++
  • Understanding of standard interconnect and bus architectures (e.g., AMBA, UFS/Unipro/MPhy)
  • Familiarity with emulation, acceleration, or hybrid verification flows is a strong plus
  • Good debugging skills using waveforms, logs, and protocol analyzers
  • Ability to work across hardware and software boundaries

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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