Software Engineer II

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to work with the Digital Design and Signoff Group engineering team. You will be joining a small, expanding, exciting team responsible for innovating, designing, and developing key technology used within the Cerebrus™ product. The team is based in Cambridge, UK working within a global team.

Job Responsibilities

• The role’s day to day responsibilities cover development of the Cerebrus™ product within the group: Design, implementation and validation of new functionality to apply machine learning methods to digital design flows.
• Validation and analysis of these functionalities on benchmark designs to measure achieved improvements
• R&D support of application and product engineers for customer problems and requests. This consists of problem analysis, debugging and fixing, or the development of new features and enhancements
• This job will suit applicants looking to further their software engineering career in an intellectually stimulating and challenging environment.
• The applicant will be comfortable taking ownership of their code.
• There is a significant research element to the work that Cadence does that is truly innovative; we don’t know what the answers are when we start out!
• Mentoring and support will be provided to the successful candidate to both enable contribution to the large EDA problem domain and to develop their programming skills into professional software engineering skills.

Job Qualifications

• Good degree in computer science or other numerate discipline from a respected institution.
• Experience in SW development under UNIX.
• Desire to understand and master the data structures, algorithms and interactions used within the digital flows of the worlds leading chip design companies
• The individual tenacity to investigate and debug complex data-driven reported issues
• Motivation to learn and adapt the use of the other digital flow tools: Genus™, Innovus™, Tempus™, etc.
• Fully contribute and engage within a small team to develop new innovative algorithms for challenging and hard to solve problems.
• Cerebrus is developed across multiple global sites (Cambridge UK, San Jose USA, Shanghai, India).
• Communication in English is required as well as an ability to communicate and collaborate in a distributed international team through us of online collaboration tools.

Additional Skills/Preferences

• Experience of SW development in any of TCL, Python, C/C++, Javascript, Unix scripting
• Any knowledge in electronic design automation.

Successful candidates will be: Inquisitive, Interested in technical detail, Excited by innovation, Ability to work independently as well as contribute and communicate within the local and global team environment