Lead Software Engineer

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.

In the Company’s products,  we are developing the next generation, highly scalable and distributable solution.  This development position will look into new techniques and challenge the status quo to develop massively parallelized software. We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer to work in a fast-paced, small team environment, as part of the larger product team.

Desired Skills:

• Experience in C++ coding, with hands-on project experience with distributed computing/multithreading

• Strong algorithm background, and implementation experience in dealing and processing of large amount of data

• Knowledge and implementation experience with computational geometry, layout connectivity, parasitic extraction, LEF/DEF is a big plus

• Knowledge in UNIX shell and scripting language like TCL/Perl/Python

• Good communication skills and desire to learn in a startup like environment

• Minimum of 3 years of software development experience with BS/CS degree

• We have 5 positions for this role based in our Cadence Ireland office