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Principal Design Engineer - Physical Design

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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Job Description About the team: Our team deliver many high-performance products based on the industry’s most advanced technology with high frequencies up to 8800MHz.Our product processes include TSMC 2nm/3nm/5nm/7nm/12nm and Samsung 2nm/4nm/5nm/7nm/8nm/10nm, etc. In the team you will face great challenges such as FP, CTS, STA, etc. At the same time, you will get rich experience and advanced methodology. Job Responsibilities: Focus on high-speed digital DDR PHY IP physical implementation, develop necessary scripts or tools to enhance current PD design flow. Work in product projects, including but not limited to: complete the project tasks; solve design issue and provide flow to check and avoid similar issue; analyze and summarize PPA optimization methodologies and results, implement optimal design parameters and flows for different projects. Job Requirement: -BS with minimum 7+ years of experience. MS with minimum 5+ years of experience. -Good physical design experience in the digital implementation domain including Floorplan, CTS, STA, Physical verification, Power analysis. -Solid background in circuits, electronics, physics, be willing to learn new technology for cutting edge process node and advanced design methodology. -Skilled in scripting language, such as Perl, C shell, TCL, Makefile, Python. -Familiar with EDA tools like Innovus, ICC, Calibre, Tempus, PrimeTime, etc. We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

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Listed on workday · posted 2026-10-13. ApplySarthi collects openings and links to application pages; the role is advertised by Cadence, not by us.