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Principal Product Engineer

AUSTIN💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Product Engineer providing technical place and route expertise to customers and R&D for advanced chip design platforms.

Role type

Principal Product Engineer (Digital Implementation)

Builds

Software tools for advanced chip design platforms

Domain

Semiconductor / EDA / VLSI Physical Design

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

ASIC design methodologies, RTL to GDSII flow, timing closure, PPA optimization (16nm and below), VLSI physical design, timing analysis, RTL synthesis, placement optimization, clock tree synthesis, routing optimization, silicon signoff, hierarchical design methodologies, low power design, Perl scripting, Tcl scripting, shell scripting

Preferred skills

Debugging customer problems, flow development, benchmarking

Technologies

EDA tools (Synthesis, Physical design, Signoff)

Responsibilities

Support Cadence products in the Digital and Signoff team, Track and debug customer issues and work with R&D and release team on issue resolution, Run design benchmarks and develop flows and solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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