Software Systems Engineer II

As a Software Systems Engineer II, you will be part of System Engineering in the HSV group in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

The System Engineering team works with both Palladium and Protium emulators.

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Working at Cadence is very dynamic, fast-paced, and integrated with other teams all around the world.

Job Description:

• This position is a highly visible function to bridge and gate-keep the full integration, validation, and characterization of ASIC, HW/PCB, SW, FW, and FPGA subsystems in the whole development cycle.  The same discipline also applies to system bring-up and testing, methodology development and verification.
• Leverage silicon verification platform and environment to create necessary post-silicon infrastructure, methodology and automation to allow tests executed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Integrate silicon, HW, firmware, and system software into a complete system which includes various InfiniBand and PCIe protocols, PXE booting, virtual machines, secure networks, Ethernet and Ethernet-over-Infiniband, sockets and RPC calls, FPGA, microcontroller interfaces, JTAG, I2C, SPI, SERDES, memory and many other interfaces.
• Execute post-silicon tests to expose design issues, validate product against the specifications including performance, and qualify the design for production release.
• Review, replicate, and respond to customer issues. Perform initial analysis of error logs from customer design simulation runs. Debug and isolate system-level issues down to ASIC/FPGAs, host servers, subsystems, firmware modules, runtime diagnostics.
• Develop silicon and system stress tests. Leverage tests developed by other engineers. Package tests for production and field use.
• Define, develop and drive the implementation of validation automation environment.

Requirements:

• Complete Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
• Proficient in one or more of the following disciplines – silicon simulation, silicon design, HW design, firmware design, silicon bring-up, system bring-up, HW/SW development/debug, verification and validation.
• Fluent in at least one functional scripting language, preferably but not limited to Python.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, self-motivated and ability to work with cross-functions teams around the globe.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.

Nice to have:

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or equivalent experiences.
• Fluent in additional programming and/or scripting languages to Python.
• Experience with embedded software/firmware, operating systems, and/or HW/SW interfaces
• Experience in developing, maintaining and operating automated engineering processes.

Additional Job Details:

• Employment category: Full-time
• Employment term: 40 hours/week.
• Competitive benefits.
• Location: Av Contorno 5800, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais Brazil.