Principal FPGA Design Engineer

San Jose, California

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


Protium Prototyping Platform is part of the Cadence Dynamic Duo that has been a huge success with our customers. With Cadence Protium prototyping platforms, design and verification teams can rapidly bring up a prototype and provide a pre-silicon platform for early software development, system validation, and hardware regressions.


Protium is leading product in FPGA Emulation/Prototyping domain. This role is to design, verification, timing closure and hardware validation of the FPGA IPs.


  • Developing field-programmable gate array intellectual properties (FPGA IPs) for Protium platform, including design, verification, integration, timing closure, documentation and releasing the IPs to end users;
  • Working on FPGA IP Design, Verification/Simulation, Timing closure, Validation of IP on the hardware;
  • Enhancing current IPs as well as developing new IPs.
  • Debug and fix internal regression failures for FPGA IPs.
  • Documentation of IPs

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

  • Master degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of experience
  • Experience with FPGA design and verification using Verilog
  • Experience with high end Xilinx(AMD) FPGAs including using Vivado tool for simulation, Place and route
  • Experience in debugging FPGAs in the lab using Vivado hardware manager, debugging with firmware/software
  • Experience using Linux servers, Script development using Shell/Perl/TCL
  • Experience using Cadence Simulators Incisive or Xcelium
  • Detailed knowledge about industry standard interfaces such as PCI Express, DRAM/DDR4, SRAM, I2C, JTAG, AXI

Date Posted: 02 May 2025
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