Software Engineer I

Overview

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. Cadence is the leader in hardware emulation-prototyping technology and products. We are seeking a hands-on System Integration Engineer to join the System Engineering team to define, validate and enable the products and to work with the interactions of a complex multi-rack system. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Position Requirements

The annual salary range for California is $88,900 to $165,100. You may also be eligible to receive incentive compensation : bonus, equity, and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the salary range is a guideline and compensation may vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location. Our benefits programs include : paid vacation and paid holidays, 401(k) plan with employer match, employee stock purchase plan, a variety of medical, dental and vision plan options, and more.

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