Product Engineer

Job Overview:

As a Product Engineer for the EMX product family, you will be responsible for bridging between customers, the Field Applications team, the Global Support team and the EMX R&D team to capture new electromagnetic device and tool requirements and capability requests, whose realization will drive the development of Cadence’s next generation of chip, package and system design solutions. EMX Product Engineers develop integrated solutions that address these requirements, manage customer evaluations, key customer engagements and beta release programs, author supporting documentation and track and resolve customer issues. Some travel may be required.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop programmable layout cells (pcells)
• Integrate pcells into solutions that leverage Cadence’s overall product portfolio, including EMX, ADE, Spectre and ViVA
• Manage customer evaluations, key customer engagements and beta release programs, as well as track and resolve customer issues in cooperation with local/international Field Applications team members
• Capture new electromagnetic device and tool requirements, enhancement and capability requests from customers, assisting to develop and prioritize these in cooperation with the R&D team
• Debug tool issues and provide work-arounds to customers
• Perform detailed product testing of new and enhanced features and capabilities of products in the EMX family in preparation for release to customers
• Author documentation and work with Technical Publications to ensure its inclusion into correct and easy to understand documents.

Job Qualifications:

• BSEE plus 5+ years or MSEE plus 3+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience with SKILL and/or SKILL++ programming
• Experience with programmable layout cells (pcells)
• Experience with various foundry Process Design Kits (PDKs)
• Experience with DRC and LVS as applied to pcells
• Knowledge of electromagnetic (EM) analysis tools and flows
• Experience with Cadence Virtuoso Schematic and Layout, ADE and Spectre/SpectreRF
• Experience with Linux command line usage and tools such as sed and awk
• Experience in automating tasks using shell/Perl/Python scripting
• Excellent oral and written communication, collaboration and customer interaction skills
• A details-driven approach to solve technical problems