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Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality.
Cadence customers are the world’s most innovative companies, delivering extraordinary electronic products from chips to boards to systems for the most dynamic market applications including consumer, hyperscale computing, 5G communications, automotive, aerospace industrial and health.
At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.
Job Title: Software Engineer II
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Reports to: Sr Principal Software Engineer
Job Overview:
We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to work with the Digital Design and Signoff Group engineering team. You will be joining a small, expanding, exciting team responsible for innovating, designing, and developing key technology used within the Cerebrus™ product. The team is based in Cambridge, UK working within a global team.
Job Responsibilities:
The role’s day to day responsibilities cover development of the Cerebrus™ product within the group:
- Design, implementation and validation of new functionality to apply machine learning methods to digital design flows. Validation and analysis of these functionalities on benchmark designs to measure achieved improvements
- R&D support of application and product engineers for customer problems and requests. This consists of problem analysis, debugging and fixing, or the development of new features and enhancements
- This job will suit applicants looking to further their software engineering career in an intellectually stimulating and challenging environment.
- The applicant will be comfortable taking ownership of their code.
- There is a significant research element to the work that Cadence does that is truly innovative; we don’t know what the answers are when we start out!
- Mentoring and support will be provided to the successful candidate to both enable contribution to the large EDA problem domain and to develop their programming skills into professional software engineering skills.
Job Qualifications:
- Good degree in computer science or other numerate discipline from a respected institution.
- Experience in SW development under UNIX.
- Desire to understand and master the data structures, algorithms and interactions used within the digital flows of the worlds leading chip design companies
- The individual tenacity to investigate and debug complex data-driven reported issues
- Motivation to learn and adapt the use of the other digital flow tools: Genus™, Innovus™, Tempus™, etc.
- Fully contribute and engage within a small team to develop new innovative algorithms for challenging and hard to solve problems.
- Cerebrus is developed across multiple global sites (Cambridge UK, San Jose USA, Shanghai, India). Communication in English is required as well as an ability to communicate and collaborate in a distributed international team through us of online collaboration tools.
Additional Skills/Preferences:
- Experience of SW development in any of TCL, Python, C/C++, Javascript, Unix scripting
- Any knowledge in electronic design automation.
Additional Information:
Successful candidates will be:
- Inquisitive
- Interested in technical detail
- Excited by innovation
- Ability to work independently as well as contribute and communicate within the local and global team environment
Check what we can offer you:
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday per year
- Private Medical and Dental plans, Income Protection and Life Insurance
- Group Personal Pension Plan
- Cycle to work scheme and gym subsidy
- 5 days paid time to volunteer to give back to our communities
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- The opportunity to work for a Great Place to Work© & Fortune 100 organization
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.
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