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RTL2 GDS, Sr Principal AE

HOME CO💼 Full-time💰 $126,000–$126,000🗓 2026-07-20 → 2026-07-30

Core

Senior Application Engineer providing technical support and deployment guidance for Cadence's backend digital design implementation and signoff tools to semiconductor customers.

Role type

Sr Principal Application Engineer (Backend Digital Implementation & Signoff)

Builds

Production EDA flows for Place and Route, Design Closure, and timing/power signoff

Domain

Semiconductor / Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Digital Design Fundamentals, Static Timing Analysis, Physical Design, Place and Route, IR Drop, backend design timing and power closure, advanced node design (10nm and below), scripting (Tcl/Perl/Python), customer-facing communication

Preferred skills

Front-end EDA tools (Synthesis, DFT, Logical Equivalence Checking), Cadence tool suite (Genus, Innovus, Conformal, Tempus, Modus, Voltus, ICC, DC, Primetime), advanced node design (5nm and below)

Technologies

Tcl, Perl, Python, Genus, Innovus, Conformal, Tempus, Modus, Voltus, ICC, DC, Primetime

Responsibilities

Provide technical support for backend digital design implementation and signoff, guide customers on tool utilization for design goals, conduct technical presentations and product demonstrations, drive technical evaluations and benchmarks, collaborate with R&D to enhance tools and methodologies, drive adoption of Cadence tools, provide guidance to amend design flows using scripting

Seniority

Sr Principal, hands-on IC with customer-facing leadership

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