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Principal Product Validation Engineer

Cadence

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  1. Why do you want to join Cadence?
  2. What is your experience with C++? Tell me one thing you learned the hard way.
  3. Tell me about a hard bug you tracked down. How did you find the cause?
  4. How do you decide what to test, and what does good code review look like to you?
  5. Describe a time a deadline forced a trade-off in quality. What did you choose and why?

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At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. The person should be an Electrical, Electronics or Computer Science Engineer with very good understanding of HDLs (Verilog and/ or VHDL). Prior experience in simulation/emulation using these languages. He/ she should have a good working knowledge of EDA tools (Cadence/ Others) with focus towards debugging design/ verification problems using these tools. Experience in process automation with scripting. Experience with SystemVerilog, C++, UVM. Experience with Functional Verification of complex digital systems, e.g. SoC Verification, with a Hardware Verification Language (HVL) like SystemVerilog. Experience designing and implementing complex functional verification environments is required. Knowledge of protocols like PCIe, USB3/4, DP an added advantage. We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t.

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Listed on workday · posted 2026-08-27. ApplySarthi collects openings and links to application pages; the role is advertised by Cadence, not by us.