Director of Emulation and FPGA Prototyping Application Engineering

Director of Emulation and FPGA Prototyping Application Engineering

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

As an integral member of the North American Field Applications Engineering (AE) Team, you will work directly with industry leading semiconductor and system companies to deploy Cadence’s market leading Palladium acceleration and emulation platform.

In this customer facing role you will lead and manage an Application Engineering Team to help with the Pre and Post-Sales process and will work with the account team to come up with innovative solutions to address our customers most challenging problems.

Key responsibilities in this position are to:

• Lead and Manage a team of Application Engineers and be responsible for also leading customer relationships .
• Establish technical credibility and rapport with the customer and become the go-to expert for all of their technical inquiries and support .

  Assign roles and responsibilities within the team .

• Provide in-depth technical assistance in collaboration with R&D to help support advanced acceleration/emulation flows to secure design wins
• Champion the customer needs and work with R&D and Marketing to develop competitive and creative technical solutions.
• Understand the competitive landscape and continuously work on differentiating Cadence’s solutions.
• Write technical product literature such as application notes and technical articles.
• Review new product proposals and device specifications

The major focus of this role will be on Emulation and FPGA prototyping and will require strong skills in the following areas:

• Design fundamentals such as architecture, micro-architecture, HDLs and Synthesis and timing
• Fundamental SoC Architecture knowledge
• Experience with multiple clock domains and asynchronous interfaces
• Strong FPGA prototyping knowledge including compilation, debug and performance optimization on multiple FPGA prototyping platforms
• In-depth knowledge of the FPGA development process & tool flow from RTL to bitstream for Xilinx or Altera products
• Hands on experience with lab bring up, debug, chipscope and instrument usage
• Embedded software development and HW/SW codesign and coverification
• Knowledge of SystemVerilog DPI highly desirable.
• Knowledge of UNIX, C/C++, scripting programming languages such as Perl, TCL
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
• Self motivated and strong teamwork skills
• Experience in HW acceleration, In-Circuit Emulation
• Knowledge of Transactor based simulation acceleration

– Minimum experience required: BSEE or MSEE with 10+ years of Industry experience as a technical lead or technical manager

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